To other Darwinians — except Darwin — Natural Selection seemed a dogma to be put in the place of the Athanasian creed; it was a form of religious hope; a promise of ultimate perfection.

对其他达尔文主义者——除了达尔文——来说，自然选择似乎是一个教条，用来取代亚他那修斯的信条；这是一种宗教希望；最终完美的承诺。

To him, the ganoid was a huge perplexity, none the less because neither he nor the ganoid troubled Darwinians, but the more because it helped to reveal that Darwinism seemed to survive only in England.

对他来说，类人猿是一个巨大的困惑， 尽管如此，因为他和类人动物都没有困扰达尔文主义者， 但更多的是因为它有助于揭示达尔文主义似乎只在英国存在。