140 CHARLES DARWIN. 



After alluding to the revolution in thought which 

 had taken place in thirty-four years, he said : — 



" As he noted in the presidential address to which they had 

 just listened with such well-deserved interest, he found it stated 

 on that which was then and at this time the highest authority 

 for them, that as a matter of fact the doctrine of the immuta- 

 bility of species was disposed of and gone. He found that 

 few were now found to doubt that animals separated by 

 differences far exceeding those which they knew as species 

 were yet descended from a common ancestry. Those were 

 their propositions ; those were the fundamental principles of 

 the doctrine of evolution. Darwinism was not evolution, nor 

 Spencerism, nor Haeckelism, nor Weismannism, but all these 

 were built on the fundamental doctrine which was evolution, 

 which they maintained so many years, and which was that 

 upon which their President had put the seal of his authority 

 that evening " 



Huxley thus hailed the statements of the Presi- 

 dent in favour of evolution, while the attacks on 

 natural selection he merely met by saying that the 

 address would have made a good subject for dis- 

 cussion in one of the sections, and by insisting with 

 impressive solemnity that evolution was a very 

 diflerent thing from natural selection, thereby im- 

 plying that the former would be unaffected by the 

 fate of the latter. 



The second occasion was between three and four 

 months later, when Huxley spoke at the Anniversary 

 Dinner of the Koyal Society, November 30th, 1894, 

 after having been awarded the Darwin Medal at the 

 afternoon meeting. I quote his words from the 

 verbatim report of the Times for December 1st : — 



