DARWINISM 



AND OTHER ESSAYS. 

 I. 



DARWINISM VERIFIED. 



IT is- not often that the propounder of a new and 

 startling scientific theory has lived to see his daring 

 innovations accepted by the scientific world in general. 

 Harvey's great discovery of the circulation of the 

 blood was scoffed at for nearly a whole generation ; 

 and Newton's law of gravitation, though proved by 

 the strictest mathematical proof, received from many 

 eminent men but a slow and grudging acquiescence. 

 Even Leibnitz, who as a mathematician hardly inferior 

 to Newton himself might have been expected to be 

 convinced on simple inspection of the theory, was 

 prevented from accepting it by the theological 

 objection that it appeared to substitute the action of a 



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