...botanist Asa Gray, who was one of the earliest converts to Darwin, still believed that ' variation had been led along ' certain beneficial lines,' like a...along definite and ' useful lines of irrigation.' f The American naturalist Cope invokes a ' growth-force ' which acts independently of ' fitness,' as...

...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided. However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief that ' variation...' along definite and useful lines of irrigation.' "* Only one other matter remains to be dealt with ; but this, if I mistake not, is a matter of considerable...

...monstrous confusion. It is in this sense, perhaps, we are to understand Professor Asa Gray when he says that " variation has been led along certain beneficial...stream "along definite and useful lines of irrigation." Mr. Darwin feels unable to accept the conclusion ; but as he only justifies his position by a faulty...

...designed. However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Prof. Asa Gray in his belief ' that variatim has been led along certain beneficial lines,' like...'along definite and useful lines of irrigation.'" * I could give a number of other quotations to the same general effect from the writings of Mr. Darwin,...

...the simple Christian faith in Divine superintendence. The often-quoted belief of Professor Gray, " that variation has been led along certain beneficial lines, like a stream along definite lines of irrigation," VOL. cxin. — NO. 232. 7 the case of sexual preferences ? All such arrangements,...

...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided. However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief ' that variation...' along definite and useful lines of irrigation.' " J In this paragraph man is declared to be an unintended product of nature. JJ Murphy. 4. Others again,...

...ends.1 Mr Darwin also seems to deny Design, when he says that however much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief " that variation...like a stream " along definite and useful lines of irrigation."2 Professor Haeckel again, Darwin's great disciple in Germany, so disbelieves in design...

...included, were intentionally and specially guided," adds : " However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief ' that variation...' along definite and useful lines of irrigation.' " l If Mr. Darwin does not agree with Dr. Gray, Dr. Gray does not agree with Mr. Darwin. It is as to...

...included, were intentionally and specially guided," adds : "However much we may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief 'that variation...led along certain beneficial lines' like a stream f along definite and useful lines of irrigation.' " l If Mr. Darwin does not agree with Dr. Gray, Dr....

...world, man included, were intentionally and specially guided. However much wo may wish it, we can hardly follow Professor Asa Gray in his belief " that " variation...variation was from the beginning of all time preordained, then that plasticity of organisation, which leads to many injurious deviations of structure, as well...