HUXLEY AND EVOLUTION. 



The Direct Evidences of Evolution : Three Lectures in New York, 

 September 18, 20 and 22, 1876. I. The Untenable Hypotheses; II. 

 Circumstantial Evidence of Evolution; 111. The Demonstrative 

 Evidence. New York Tribune Extra, No. 36.* 



FOR the complete, authentic, and accessible form of 

 the lectures cited above, we are indebted to a phase 

 of newspaper enterprise which is purely and creditably 

 American. It is a pleasure to make acknowledgment 

 of the great service rendered to science and literature 

 in America by the cultured editorship of the Netv York 

 Tribune, which discovers so large resources of "news" 

 in the events and utterances of the world of science and 

 letters. 



The lectures themselves were widely heralded; every 

 movement of the distinguished foreigner was made a 

 sensation, and the whole country had been lifted to the 

 tip-toe of expectation. The theme announced was one 

 which had already agitated every thinking circle of two 

 continents. Professor Huxley had long been distinguished 

 as a bold leader in the advocacy of a hypothesis which 



* The report of the New York Tribune was l> carefully revised by Prof. 

 Huxley." and republished in The Popular Science Monthly. Ivi, 43-72, 207-25, 

 285-98, November and December 1876, and January 1877. The titles given in this 

 edition are I. The Three Hypotheses of the History of Nature; IT. The Negative 

 and Favorable Evidence; III. The Demonstrative Evidence of Evolution. 

 Much of the two following articles is reproduced substantially from the Meth- 

 odist Quarterly Rerictr for April 1871. They wili be found, however, to contain 

 very extensive changes and additions. 



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