ABSTRACT
Darwin himself sees the force of the objection more clearly than Professor Russell Wallace, for on page sixty-six of the “Origin of Species” he discusses this very point. As a matter of fact, in the quotation Professor Wallace here makes, Lord Salisbury does not plainly set forth that variations occur singly, he neither says nor implies anything of the sort, and if he did assert it he is only repeating the very language of Darwin himself. Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection did not suggest itself to him at once, it dawned upon his mind during his intellectual pursuits, as an explanation of the variations, development, and sort of organic progression he saw in organic life. The general opinion about Darwin’s works, possibly even among those accredited with some knowledge on the subject, is that they are a vast and varied storehouse of facts, and information, relating to natural history.
