Other supporters of the transmutation doctrine assume that they can demonstrate the changes to have taken place by showing certain degrees of resemblance; but what they never touch is the quality and condition of those few first progenitors from which they were evolved.
They assume that they contained all that is necessary to evolve what exists now.

That is begging the question at the outset; for if these first prototypes contained the principle of evolution, we should know something about them from observation, and it should be shown that there are such organized beings as are capable of evolution.
"I ask, Whence came these properties?
If this power and capacity of change is not inherent to the first progenitors, then I ask, Whence came the impulses by which those progenitors which have not this power of change in themselves acquire them?
What is the power by which they are started in directions which are not determined by their primitive nature?
From the total silence of the supporters of the transmutation theory on these and other points, _he did not think it worth their while to take the slightest notice of this doctrine of evolution in his scientific considerations_.

He acknowledged what the evolutionists had done incidentally in scientific research; none had done more than Mr.
Darwin.

He believed he had been injured woefully by his adherents.

He was a far better man than most of his school made him." It is to be acknowledged, however, that many scientists are evolutionists.