80 • WHAT IS DARWINISM? 



it is found." " If we apprehend," Huxley fur- 

 ther says, " the spirit of the ' Origin of Species ' 

 rightly, then, nothing can be more entirely and 

 absolutely opposed to teleology, as it is com- 

 monly understood, than the Darwinian theory." 

 (p. 303) 



It has already been stated that Mr. Wallace 

 does not apply the doctrine of evolution to 

 man ; neither does Mr. Mivart, a distinguished 

 naturalist, who is a member of the Latin 

 Church. The manner in which Professor Hux- 

 ley speaks of these gentlemen shows how 

 thoroughly, in his judgment, Mr. Darwin ban- 

 ishes God from his works : " Mr. Wallace and 

 Mr. Mivart are as stout evolutionists as Mr. 

 Darwin himself; but Mr. Wallace denies that 

 man can have been evolved from a lower ani- 

 mal by that process of natural selection, which 

 he, with Mr. Darwin, holds to be sufficient for 

 the evolution of all animals below man ; while 

 Mr. Mivart, admitting that natural selection 

 has been one of the conditions of the animals 

 below man, maintains that natural selection 

 must, even in their case, have been supple- 

 mented by some other cause, — of the nature 

 of which, unfortunately, he does not give us 

 any idea. Thus Mr. Mivart is less of a Dar- 



