1 8/1.] 'QUARTERLY REVIEW.' 147 



[The above-mentioned ' Quarterly ' review was the subject of 

 an article by Mr. Huxley in the November number of the 

 ' Contemporary Review/ Here, also, are discussed Mr. Wallace's 

 ' Contribution to the Theory of Natural Selection,' and the 

 second edition of Mr. Mivart's ' Genesis of Species.' What 

 follows is taken from Mr. Huxley's article. The ' Quarterly ' 

 reviewer, though being to some extent an evolutionist, believes 

 that Man " differs more from an elephant or a gorilla, than do 

 these from the dust of the earth on which they tread." The 

 reviewer also declares that my father has " with needless op- 

 position, set at naught the first principles of both philosophy 

 and religion." Mr. Huxley passes from the ' Quarterly ' re- 

 viewer's further statement, that there is no necessary opposi- 

 tion between evolution and religion, to the more definite 

 position taken by Mr. Mivart, that the orthodox authorities 

 -of the Roman Catholic Church agree in distinctly asserting 

 derivative creation, so that " their teachings harmonize with 

 .all that modern science can possibly require." Here Mr. 

 Huxley felt the want of that " study of Christian philo- 

 sophy" (at any rate, in its Jesuitic garb), which Mr. Mivart 

 speaks of, and it was a want he at once set to work to fill up. 

 He was then staying at St. Andrews, whence he wrote to 

 my father : 



" By great good luck there is an excellent library here, with 

 a good copy of Suarez,* in a dozen big folios. Among these I 

 dived, to the great astonishment of the librarian, and looking 

 into them ' as the careful robin eyes the delver's toil ' (vide 

 'Idylls'), I carried off the two venerable clasped volumes 

 which were most promising." Even those who know Mr. 

 Huxley's unrivalled power of tearing the heart out of a book 

 must marvel at the skill with which he has made Suarez 

 .speak on his side. " So I have come out," he wrote, " in the 

 new character of a defender of Catholic orthodoxy, and upset 

 JVEivart out of the mouth of his own prophet." 



* The learned Jesuit on whom Mr. Mivart mainly relies. 



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