Though the problem [of evolution] is all unsolved and the old questions stand unanswered, there are those who have taken on themselves the responsibility of giving to the ignorant, as a gospel, in the name of Science, the rough guesses of yesterday that tomorrow should forget.

Materials for the Study of Variation Treated With Especial Regard to, Discontinuity in the Origins of Species, Preface (p. xii), Macmillan & Co Ltd. 1894