310.] [Footnote 19: Erroneously called neuter, as in reality it is an imperfectly developed female, and is only capable of producing males.] [Footnote 20: I owe my first clear apprehension of the gradual evolution of the preservative and altruistic elements in nature, arising from the struggle for existence, to a sermon of Dr.Abbott's called _The Manifestation of the Son of God_, now, I fear, out of print.

Of course Darwin recognized these factors as a necessary complement to the survival of the fittest, else had there been no fittest to survive; but the exigencies of proving his theory of the origin of species necessitated his dwelling on the destructive and weeding-out elements of Nature--"Nature red in tooth and claw," rather than the equally pervasive Nature of the brooding wing and the flowing breast.

Had not Professor Drummond unfortunately mixed it up with a good deal of extraneous sentiment, his main thesis would scarcely have been impugned.] [Footnote 21: In case this method of teaching should seem to some mothers too difficult, I intend to embody it in a simple "Mother's Talk on Life and Birth," which a mother can read with her boys.] [Footnote 22: See a White Cross paper of mine called _My Little Sister_.
Wells Gardner, Darton and Co., London.] [Footnote 23: Twice since the wreck of the _Birkenhead_ has the same true manhood been evinced on the high seas in the face of almost certain death--once in the wreck of the troopship, the _Warren Hastings_, and again by the crew and the civilian passengers of the _Stella_.

Perfect order was maintained, and though, ultimately all the men were saved, not a man stirred hand or foot to save himself till the women and children had first been safely got on shore.] [Footnote 24: _French and English_, by Philip Hamerton, p.

44.] [Footnote 25: _The British Zulu_.