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breeding will not be proved to be competent 

 to all that is required if it produce natural 

 species." ^ In immediate connection with the 

 above passage, there is another which throws 

 a clear light on Professor Huxley's cosmical 

 views. " The whole analogy of natural opera- 

 tions furnish so coiqaplete and crushing an 

 argument against the intervention of any but 

 what are called secondary causes, in the pro- 

 duction of all the phenomena of the universe ; 

 that, in view of the intimate relations of man 

 and the rest of the living world, and between 

 the forces exerted by the latter and all other 

 forces, I can see no reason for doubting that 

 all are coordinate terms of nature's great pro- 

 gression, from formless to formed, from the 

 inorganic to the organic, from blind force to 

 conscious intellect and will." ^ 



^ Evidence of Man'' s Place in Nature. London, 1864, j?. 107. 



2 Since writing the above paragraph our eye fell on the follow- 

 ing note on the 89th page of the Duke of Argyle's Reign of Law, 

 which it gives us pleasure to quote. It seems that a wi-iter in the 

 Spectator had charged Professor Huxley with Atheism. In the 

 number of tliat paper for February 10, 1866, the Professor replies: 

 " I do not know that I care very much about popular odium, so 

 there is no great merit, in saying that if- 1 really saw fit to deny 

 the existence of a God I should certainly do so, for the sake of 

 my own intellectual freedom, and be the honest atheist you are 

 pleased to say I am. As it happens, however, I cannot take this 



