72 WHAT IS DARWINISMf 



It may, indeed, be said that thej are dead 

 matter, whereas plants and animals live. But 

 what is life but one form of the organizing 

 efficiency of God ? 



Mr. Wallace does not go as far as Mr. Dar- 

 win. He recoils from regarding man either 

 as to ho&y or soul as the product of mere nat- 

 ural causes. He insists that ^'a superior in- 

 telligence is necessary to account for man." (p. 

 359) This of course implies that the agency 

 of no such higher intelligence is admitted in 

 the production of plants or of animals lower 

 than man. 



Professor Huxley. 



The second witness as to the character of 

 Mr. Darwin's theory is Professor Huxley. "We 

 have some hesitation in including the name of 

 this distinguished naturalist among the advo- 

 cates of Darwinism.^ On the one hand, in his 



* Mr. Huxley, if we may judge from what he says of himself, 

 is somewhat liable to be misunderstood. He says he was four- 

 teen years laboring to resist the charge of Positivism made 

 against the class of scientific men to which he belongs. He also 

 tells us in his letter to Professor Tyndall, prefixed to his volume 

 of Lay Sermons and Addresses, that the " Essay on the Phys- 

 ical Basis of Life," included in that volume, was intended as a 

 protest, from the philosophical side, against what is commonly 

 called Materialism. It turned out, however, that the public re- 



