Should the teachings of the evolutionists of to-day be finally accepted, and after a few generations become the universally received explanations of life and the universe, it is not likely any poet or novelist will more genuinely and entirely express their spirit than George Eliot has done.

Among the Heather ('The Evolutionist at Large')

The crudest finalists have been everywhere out-stripped by Evolutionists in dextrous application of the argument a posse ad esse.

She became an evolutionist without the aid of those men who are supposed to be the originators of this theory.