Genre:

Limerick

Subjects:

Gravity, Mechanics, Evolution, Descent, Darwinism, Hypothesis

    Contrasts Isaac Newton's 'demonstrated' hypotheses to Charles R Darwin's poorly supported 'speculation'. Thinks that time, 'theory's dispeller / Will out of mind remove' such speculation, and invokes Sam Weller's saying in Pickwick Papers, 'Prove it. And he can't prove it'.