s a
sympathetic attention to the argument, he does not in such way adopt the
conclusion as to assign to this factor any share in the genesis of
organic structures--much less that large share which I believe it has
had. I did not myself at that time, nor indeed until quite recently, see
how extensive and profound have been the influences on organization
which, as we shall presently see, are traceable to the early results of
this fundamental relation between organism and medium. I may add that it
is in an essay on "Transcendental Physiology," first published in 1857,
that the line of thought here followed out in its wider bearings, was
first entered upon.]

[Footnote 44: _Text-Book of Botany, &c._ by Julius Sachs. Translated by
A. W. Bennett and W. T. T. Dyer.]

[Footnote 45: _A Manual of the Infusoria_, by W. Saville Kent. Vol. i,
p. 232.]

[Footnote 46: _Ib._ Vol. i, p. 241.]

[Footnote 47: Kent, Vol. i, p. 56.]

[Footnote 48: _Ib._ Vol. i, p. 57.]

[Footnote 49: _The Elements of Comparative Anatomy_, by T. H. Huxley,
pp. 7-9.]

[Footnote 50: _A Treatise on Comparative Embryology_, by F. M. Balfour,
Vol. ii, chap. xiii.]

[Footnote 51: Sachs, p. 210.]

[Footnote 52: _Ibid._ pp. 83-4.]

[Footnote 53: _Ibid._ p. 185.]

[Footnote 54: _Ibid._ 80.]

[Footnote 55: Sachs, p. 83.]

[Footnote 56: _Ibid._ p. 147.]

[Footnote 57: _A Treatise on Comparative Embryology._ By Francis M.
Balfour, LL.D., F.R.S. Vol. ii, p. 343 (second edition).]

[Footnote 58: Balfour, l.c. Vol. ii, 400-1.]

[Footnote 59: Balfour, l.c. Vol. ii, p. 401.]

[Footnote 60: For a general delineation of the changes by which the
development is effected, see Balfour, l.c. Vol. ii, pp. 401-4.]

[Footnote 61: _See_ Balfour, Vol. i, 149 and Vol. ii, 343-4.]

A COUNTER-CRITICISM.

[_First published in_ The Nineteenth Century_, for February,_ 1888.]

While I do not concur in sundry of the statements and conclusions
contained in the article entitled "A Great Confession," contributed by
the Duke of Argyll to the last number of this Review, yet I am obliged
to him for having raised afresh the question discussed in it. Though the
injunction "Rest and be thankful," is one for which in many spheres much
may be said--especially in the political, where undue restlessness is
proving very mischievous; yet rest and be thankful is an injunction out
of place in science. Unhappily, while politicians have not duly regarded
it, it appears to