And the theory is useless for the purpose of its proposal.

All this is utterly at variance with the method of true science.

None but a mind debauched by bigoted attachment to a preconceived theory could overlook these fatal defects in the system.

Indeed both Darwin and Huxley admit that acceptance of the evidence must be preceded by belief in the principle of evolution.
It is marvelous that any properly educated student of mental science should accept a theory so incoherent, in which the rents are scarcely held together by the patches.

We can only exhibit a few specimens of the multitude of these fatal inconsistencies and deficiencies.
The theory is useless as an explanation of the arcana of Nature.