THE DOGMA OF EVOLUTION 



losophy I share with some of the most thoughtful 

 men with whom I am acquainted."^' He is here con- 

 trasting his ideas with those of the Archbishop of 

 York, whom he classes as one of the clergy who shut 

 their eyes to the truth, and yet if Huxley, that master 

 of forceful English, means anything, he is advising 

 us to use words and to mean something else, to pre- 

 tend to knowledge which we have not got. It is not a 

 pleasant picture to think of Huxley as denying ma- 

 terialism and then spending his whole life to exalt its 

 value, as proclaiming himself to be the apostle of 

 truth and at the same time preaching expediency in 

 order that he might proselytize for the doctrine of 

 Evolution. 



Let us follow Huxley a little further to see if he 

 is consistent in his belief that material things are di- 

 rected by physical forces and that living things are 

 subject to vital forces. It is not difficult to show that 

 he is a monist and a materialist (although it is diffi- 

 cult to know a man's honest belief who uses materi- 

 alistic terminology and denies materialistic ideas). 

 He writes : "There is a wider Teleology, which is not 

 touched by the doctrine of Evolution, but is actually 

 based upon the fundamental proposition of Evolu- 

 tion. That proposition is, that the whole world, living 

 and not living, is the result of the mutual interaction, 

 according to definite laws, of the forces possessed 

 by the molecules of which the primitive nebulosity 



12 Method and Results, p. 155. 



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