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of date. It may be well-meaning they may cheerfully 

 allow as much as that; but they pass it by as something 

 that, being for them, is too plainly, in their regard, 

 without instruction. For that, instruction, it is really 

 to Mr. Huxley they look he it is that knows what is 

 best for them, the Mills, the Darwins, the Grotes, the 

 Buckles, al. 



These men are themselves really very much minded as 

 Mr. Huxley is. In regard to all that he holds of supersti- 

 tion, etc. in regard to all that he holds of that whole 

 region he need not scold them; they are not different 

 from himself. They are, in fact, just as he himself is, 

 still in their Aufklarung No. 1. Something else than this, 

 a correction of it, has been in existence for many, many 

 years now ; but they know nothing of it. Still stumbling 

 at the letter, and with all these Frenchmen in memory, 

 they know nothing of an Aufkldrung No. 2 that can 

 afford, in the light of the spirit, to overlook the opacity 

 of the letter. In all English-speaking countries, it is still 

 the Aufkldrung No. 1 that is the leading divinity, and 

 I know not but that it is Mr. Huxley who is pretty 

 generally its prophet. In England, in America, there is 

 nu name more current than his not Mill's, not Buckle's, 

 not Darwin's own. 1 



As society is, then, this of Darwinianism is very much 

 a question in the mere Vorstdlung, in the mere feeling 

 ma prejudice of the day. There are a great many more 

 Darwinians on grounds of hostility to the supposed com- 

 mon belief than Mr. Huxley. And, most assuredly, it is 

 on no such grounds that we, for our part, would see the 

 question discussed. Things being as they are, that can 



1 The above will be understood in its spirit. Who of the many 

 faithful that still are, would persecute any Galileo now ? Any such 

 persecution could only come in these days from, so to speak, the un- 

 laithful faithful. 



