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from inevitable tendencies, can be alone employed. If 

 Professor Huxley is persuaded of the evil consequences of 

 Christianity, I am equally persuaded of the evil consequences 

 of his system. 



No one, I beUeve, has a greater regard for Professor 

 Huxley than I have, and no one is more convinced than I am 

 of the uprightness of his intentions and his hearty sympathy 

 with self-denying virtue. Nevertheless, the principles he 

 unhappily advocates cannot but tend, by a fatal necessity, 

 in one direction, and to produce results socially, politically, 

 and morally, which he would be the first to deplore. They 

 tend in the intellectual order to the degradation of the mind, 

 by the essential identification of thought with sensation, and 

 in the poUtical order to the evolution of horrors worse than 

 those of the Parisian Commune. I refrain from characteris- 

 ing their tendency in the moral order. 



Before concluding, I must make one observation with 

 regard to Mr. Wallace. I emphatically disclaim having had 

 any intention of depreciating obliquely Mr. Darwin, though I 

 desired to do justice to Mr. Wallace. It is an undoubted fact 

 that there are many men who, if they had thought out 

 natural selection simultaneously with Mr. Darwin, would 

 have clamorously sought a recognition of the fact, and have 

 lost no opportunity of asserting simultaneity. No one can 

 affirm that Mr. Wallace has shown the faintest inclination of 

 the kind, while no one can deny that if he had followed the 

 clamorous path, his name would have been more widely 

 known and more popularly associated with natural selection 

 than has been, in fact, the case. 



It is a gratuitous assertion on the part of Professor 

 Huxley to say I have suggested that Mr. Darwin's eminence 

 is due to Mr. Wallace's modesty, in any other sense than 

 what I have now explained — namely, that had Mr. Wallace 

 put himself more prominently forward, he would have been 



