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plish evolution realise evolution. Of evolution itself, 

 so far as depends on these " Homologies," etc., we do not 

 for a moment deny that the compilation, which, with a 

 running text of arguing and arguing, the Origin alone is, 

 has significantly added to the evidence. But these 

 homologies and the rest we hold ourselves dispensed 

 from the consideration of, simply in view of the fact 

 that they were a material common to all the evolutionary 

 theories, and never on the whole denied even by the 

 creationary ones. This, too, by the example of Mr. 

 Darwin himself, who, in seeking preliminarily to persuade 

 the three or four accepted and established authorities on 

 whom his success was to depend, only named to them, as 

 it were in passing, said homologies, embryologies, etc., 

 and confined himself further to the single device, natural 

 selection, by which it was his belief that the process, as 

 though by an agency at work, could satisfactorily be 

 brought to its accomplishment. We were the more 

 emboldened, too, to the exclusion in question by the 

 conclusions of Mr. Huxley that Mr. Darwin, in regard to 

 the five requisites, " Classification," etc., could claim for 

 himself the authority of a worker at first hand in no 

 more than one of them, Geology. These conclusions of 

 Mr. Huxley's will be found fully discussed at pp. 

 179-181, where what relates to "physical geography" 

 and " palaeontology " need not prove a difficulty. 



So far of the material excluded; but, as in looking 

 back it may also occur to us now to reflect, the question of 

 authority being in view, Mr. Huxley's position is no very 

 fixed or determinate one even for the single consideration 

 that has been left us the mere process, namely. It is 

 (ii. 197) "a matter of indifference" to him whether the 

 Darwinian doctrine shall " prove to be final or not ; " to 

 Mr. Darwin's discomfort (as more than once indirectly in 

 evidence), he stickles for the infertility of hybrids all 



