words, or tried to remove it. Nevertheless there can be no doubt
that the "Genesis of Species" gave Natural Selection what will prove
sooner or later to be its death-blow, in spite of the persistence
with which many still declare that it has received no hurt, and the
sixth edition of the" Origin of Species," published in the following
year, bore abundant traces of the fray. Moreover, though Mr. Mivart
gave us no overt aid, he pointed to the source from which help might
come, by expressly saying that his most important objection to Neo-
Darwinism had no force against Lamarck.

To Lamarck, therefore, I naturally turned, and soon saw that the
theory on which I had been insisting in" Life and Habit" was in
reality an easy corollary on his system, though one which he does
not appear to have caught sight of. I saw also that his denial of
design was only, so to speak, skin deep, and that his system was in
reality teleological, inasmuch as, to use Isidore Geoffroy's words,
it makes the organism design itself. In making variations depend on
changed actions, and these, again, on changed views of life,
efforts, and designs, in consequence of changed conditions of life,
he in effect makes effort, intention, will, all of which involve
design (or at any rate which taken together involve it), underlie
progress in organic development. True, he did not know he was a
teleologist, but he was none the less a teleologist for this. He
was an unconscious teleologist, and as such perhaps more absolutely
an upholder of teleology than Paley himself; but this is neither
here nor there; our concern is not with what people think about
themselves, but with what their reasoning makes it evident that they
really hold.

How strange the irony that hides us from ourselves! When Isidore