180 DARWINIAN1SM. 



"The great danger which besets al} men of large speculative 

 faculty, is the temptation to deal with the accepted statements of 

 fact in natural science, as if they were not only correct, but ex- 

 haustive ; as if they might be dealt with deductively, in the same 

 way as propositions" in Euclid may be dealt with. In reality, every 

 such statement, however true it may be, is true only relatively to 

 the means of observation and the point of view of those who have 

 enunciated it. ... He (Darwin) knew of his own knowledge the 

 way in which the raw materials of physical geography, geology 

 proper, geographical distribution, and palaeontology are acquired. . . ; 

 That which he needed was a corresponding acquaintance with 

 anatomy and development, and their relation to taxonomy. ... I 

 believe it would have been well worth his while to have supple- 

 mented all by a special study of embryology and physiology." 



I fear Mr. Darwin will hardly come up, even as a 

 compiler, to this standard of his own most zealous friend 

 and staunchest champion the friend and champion who 

 wrote Mr. Darwin when his book came out: "As to 

 the curs which will bark and yelp, you must recollect 

 that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with 

 au amount of combativeness which may stand you in 

 good stead : I am sharpening up my claws and beak in 

 readiness." 



Mr. Huxley certainly seems (in some other remarks 

 here) to restore to Mr. Darwin anatomy, and develop- 

 ment, and taxonomy and because of his practical work 

 on and with the cirripedes ; but there is no restoration 

 to him of embryology and physiology, at the same time 

 that one can see what a limited quarry for anatomy, and 

 development, and classification (taxonomy), the cirripedes 

 would be. Mr. Darwin, as has been referred to already, 

 complains often of his hostile reviewers, that they 

 (ii. 313) ignore, everything which he has said on 

 " Classification, Geological Succession, Homologies, Em- 

 bryology, and Rudimentary Organs." It has been 

 already explained, too, that such considerations are 

 omitted by us also, and for the reason that they are 



