t knowing more than the mere facts
which are to be criticised, 172

Criticism, Miss Seward's, on Dr. Darwin's "Elegy," 189

---- Grant Allen on the decay of, 388

Crux, the, of the early evolutionist, 35

Cuttle-fish, natural selection like the secretion of a, 332

DAMNATION, praising with faint, 111

Darwin, Charles, on the eye, denies design, 8

---- declares variation to be the cause of variation, 8, 347, 369

---- and blind chance working on whither; the accumulation of
innumerable lucky accidents, 41, 42

---- our indebtedness to, 62, 66, 335

---- has adopted one half of Isidore Geoffroy's conclusion without
verifying either, 83

---- on Buffon's fluctuation of opinion, 97

---- on Isidore Geoffroy, 97

---- his assertion that Buffon has not entered on the "causes or
means" of transformation, 104

---- his meagre notice of his grandfather, 196

---- his treatment of the author of the "Vestiges of Creation," 65,
247, 248

---- attributes the characteristics of neuter insects to natural
selection, 249

---- his treatment of Lamarck, 249, 250, 251, 298, 314, 376

---- "great is the power of steady misrepresentation," 251

---- his "happy simplicity" about animals and plants under
domestication, 276

---- his notice of Mr. Patrick Matthew in the imperfect historical
sketch which he has prefaced to the "Origin of Species," 315, 316

---- points of agreement between him and Lamarck, 335-337

---- sees no broad principle underlying variation, 339

---- dwells on the accumulation of variations, the origination of
which he leaves unaccounted for, 340, 341

---- his variations being due to no general underlying principle, will
not tend to appear in definite directions, nor to many individuals
at a time, nor to be constant for long together, 342

---- speaks of natural selection as a cause of modification, while
declaring it to be a means only, 345, &c.

---- his explanation of this, 384, &c.

---- his dilemma, as regards the "Origin of Species," 346

---- declares the fact of variation to be the cause of variation,
8, 347, 369

---- if he had told us more of what Buffon, &c., said, and where
they were wrong, he would have taken a course, &c., 357

---- on the ease with which we can hide our ignorance under a cloud
of words, 358

---- apologizes for having underrated the frequency and importance
of variation due to spontaneous variability, 358

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