What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.

'Notes on Stillingfleet by S. T. Coleridge', The Athenaeum, no. 2474, 27 March 1875