Organic Evolution Cross Examined Or Some Suggestions On the Great Secret of Bi
Organic Evolution Cross Examined Or Some Suggestions On the Great Secret of Bi
George Douglas Campbell Argyll
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Organs, on the other hand, of the same kind, are weakened and i p. 740. 88 DISCRIMINATIONS CHAP. atrophied by long - continued disuse. This is a familiar fact. What can be more easy than to translate this general fact into Darwinese phraseology ? Nature has a special favour for organs put to use. She strengthens them more and more by a process falling well under the idea of Natural Selection. In like manner, Nature deals unfavour- ably with organs which are allowed to be idle and inactive. She ...places them at a disadvantage, and they tend to perish. The truth is, that the phrase Natural Selection and the group of ideas which hide under it is so elastic that there is nothing in heaven or on earth that by a little ingenuity may not be brought under its pretended explanation. Darwin in 1859-60 wondered " how variously" his phrase had been "misunderstood. " The explanation is simple : it was because of those vague and loose analogies which ii SELECTION NOT A DEITY 89 are so often captivating.
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