FOR the third time Mr. Thiselton Dyer announces that his judgment is opposed to the theory of physiological selection. But this is not the point that I am debating. I am not discussing the merits of my theory, or endeavouring to influence the opinion of a critic who, after having shown that he had not read my answer to the criticisms which he triumphantly reproduced as never having been answered, now tells us that he has “devoted a good deal of time to the study of” my “views.” From the first I have restricted myself to meeting his specific allegations. Still restricting myself to the same ground, I find that there are but two points in his last letter which it is necessary for me to consider.
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