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[The above-mentioned ' Quarterly ' review was the subject of 

 an article by Mr. Huxley in the November number of the 

 * Contemporary Review.' Here, also, are discussed Mr. Wallace's 

 ■ Contribution to the Theory of Natural Selection,' and the 

 second edition of Mr. Mivart's ' Genesis of Species.' What 

 follows is taken from Mr. Huxley's article. The ' Quarterly ' 

 reviewer, though being to some extent an evolutionist, believes 

 that Man " differs more from an elephant or a gorilla, than do 

 these from the dust of the earth on which they tread." The 

 reviewer also declares that my father has " with needless op- 

 position, set at naught the first principles of both philosophy 

 and religion." Mr. Huxley passes from the 'Quarterly' re- 

 viewer's further statement, that there is no necessary opposi- 

 tion between evolution and religion, to the more definite 

 position taken by Mr. Mivart, that the orthodox authorities 

 of the Roman Catholic Church agree in distinctly asserting 

 derivative creation, so that " their teachings harmonize with 

 all that modern science can possibly require." Here Mr. 

 Huxley felt the want of that " study of Christian philo- 

 sophy " (at any rate, in its Jesuitic garb), which Mr. Mivart 

 speaks of, and it was a want he at once set to work to fill up. 

 He was then staying at St. Andrews, whence he wrote to 

 my father : — ■ 



" By great good luck there is an excellent library here, with 

 a good copy of Suarez,* in a dozen big folios. Among these I 

 dived, to the great astonishment of the librarian, and looking 

 into them ' as the careful robin eyes the delver's toil ' (vide 

 1 Idylls '), I carried off the two venerable clasped volumes 

 which were most promising." Even those who know Mr. 

 Huxley's unrivalled power of tearing the heart out of a book 

 must marvel at the skill with which he has made Suarez 

 speak on his side. " So I have come out," he wrote, " in the 

 new character of a defender of Catholic orthodoxy, and upset 

 Mivart out of the mouth of his own prophet." 



* The learned Jesuit on whom Mr. Mivart mainly relies. 



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