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I HAVE only just read Mr. Mivart's “Genesis of Species,” and was glad to find that his ideas, so ably expressed, are nearly, if not quite, identical with my own, which I laid before the Victoria Institute in a paper “On Certain Analogies between the Method of Deity in Nature and Revelation,” May 10, 1869. On p. 259 of his “Genesis of Species ” he has the following remarks:—“But are there any grounds for thinking that, in the Genesis of Species, an internal force or tendency intervenes, cooperating with and controlling the action of external conditions?” This question appears to me to exactly correspond with the sentiments of the following passage from the “Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute,” vol. iv., p. 265.:—
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HENSLOW, G. The Cause of Specific Variation. Nature 5, 123–124 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/005123e0
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