5i6 EVOLUTION, HEREDITY, EUGENICS 



privilege of yielding to the other man the honor and glory of the 

 public presentation of such a world-shaking hypothesis. 



Accordingly, in the spring of 1858, Sir Charles Lyell and Dr. 

 J. D. Hooker communicated to the Linnaean Society Wallace's 

 paper just mentioned and brief extracts from Darwin's unpublished 

 works together with an abstract of a letter to Professor Asa Gray. 

 The two papers, with the many striking examples supporting Dar- 

 win's theory, stirred the scientific world. 



Polemics were issued by the theologians and more attention was 

 thus focused than otherwise. The result was that when Darwin 

 published his book in 1859, the first edition was sold out in a day. 

 So bitter was the fight waged by prominent theologians that it 

 took the most strenuous efforts of T. H. Huxley (i 825-1 895), the 

 " bull-dog of Darwinism," and of other less militant scientists to 

 turn the tide. 



When the average person thinks of " evolution " he is likely to 

 confine himself to garbled statements of the Darwinian theory. 

 Recently, when Bateson of England in a public address mentioned 

 the fact that modern Biologists do not accept in all details Charles 

 Darwin's theory, the opponents of evolution seized upon the state- 

 ment and announced that the great biologist denied evolution. 

 Although all biologists do not agree about the method of evolution 

 they believe in it as an established law. 



A recent paper ^ by Henry Fairfield Osborn, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, points out that man has an age-old 

 history. Man, we find from the discoveries of archeologists, has 

 always had a religion and a soul. He has always worshipped and 

 revered something, except of course during his own period of 

 adolescent outbreak. 



Biologists, like other men of science, are neither atheists nor 

 iconoclastic in their attitude toward religion. As the distinguished 

 Sir William Bragg said (1928) in an address before the British Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, " Science is not setting forth 

 to destroy the soul, but to keep body and soul together." 



Clark^s Zo'dgenesis Theory. — A. H. Clark of the Smithsonian 

 Institution has formulated a most stimulating theory which he has 

 been kind enough to summarize for this text. 



8 H. F. Osborn. 1928. Recent discoveries relating to the origin and antiquity of 

 man. Science, vol. 65, no. 1690, pp. 481-488. 



