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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: electricity, etc.; why then should it occur when the noblest efforts are made in the construction of myriads of living beings, in giving them perfect adaptations to their conditions of life, including man himself ? It is scarcely to be wondered at that Darwinism should have been regarded as a death-blow to Theism. Herein, then, will be seen the absolute necessity of showing the fallacies of Darwinism in any attempt to expose the irrationality of Rationalists and Haeckelian or materialistic monists. What then is the alternative to Darwinism to account for evolution ? I will call it the True Darwinism, because Darwin himself gave it us, as well as natural selection. Euclid bases his propositions on axioms, and True Darwinism is founded on two such axioms. The first is Variability ?that is, the capacity or power in all organisms to vary in internal structure and external form. Secondly, there is a power residing in protoplasm and the nucleus, which can respond to external influences. They can by means of this power construct cells, tissues and organs in response to, and direct adaptation to the conditions of life. Darwin thus describes the process: ? The direct action of changed conditions leads to definite or indefinite results. ... In the former case the nature of the organism is such that it yields readily when subjected to certain conditions, and all, or nearly all, the individuals become modified in the same way.lTHE TRUE DARWINISM 19 1 Origin of Species, p. 106. A new sub-variety would be formed without the aid of natural selection. The important point to notice is that we here have a Natural Law governing the relationship between the variations which arise and the changed conditions of We. As all the individuals vary alike in r...
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