HUXLEY AND EVOLUTION, 



Tlw Direct Evidences of Evolution : Three Lectures in New York, 

 September 18, 20 and 22, 1876. I. The Untenable Hypotheses; II. 

 Circumstantial Evidence of Evohition; III. The Demonstrative 

 Evidence. New York Tribune Extra, No. 36.* 



FOR the complete, authentic, and accessible form of 

 the lectures cited above, we are indebted to a phase 

 of newspaper enterprise which is purely and creditably 

 American. It is a pleasure to make acknowledgment 

 of the crreat service rendered to science and literature 

 in America by the cultured editorship of the New York 

 Tribune, which discovers so large resources of " news " 

 in the events and utterances of the world of science and 

 letters. 



The lectures themselves were widely heralded; every 

 movement of the distinc^uished foreigfner was made a 

 sensation, and the whole country had been lifted to the 

 tip-toe of expectation. The theme announced was one 

 which had already agitated every thinking circle of two 

 continents. Professor Huxley had long been distinguished 

 as a bold leader in the advocacy of a hypothesis which 



* The report of the JVeiv York Tribune was " carefully revised by Prof. 

 Huxley," and republished in The Popular Science Monthly, Ivi, 43-72, 207-25, 

 285-98, November and December 1876, and January 1877. The titles given in this 

 edition are I. The Three Hypotheses of the History of Nature; IT. The Noi^ativc 

 and Favorable Evidence; TIT. The Demonstrative Evidence of Evolution. 

 Much of the two following articles is reproduced substantially froui the Meth- 

 odist Quarterly Review for April 1871. They will be found, however, to contain 

 very extensive changes and additions 



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