114 Thomas Henry Huxley 



have never heard that he wrote in the Times. It will 

 do grand service." On the same day, writing to Hux- 

 ley himself, he said of the review : 



"It included au eulogium of me which quite touched nie, 

 although I am not vaiu euough to thiuk it all deserved. The 

 author is a literary mau aud a German scholar. He has read 

 my book attentively; but, what is very remarkable, it seems 

 that he is a profound naturalist. He knows my barnacle book 

 and appreciates it too highly. Lastly, he writes aud thinks 

 with quite uncommon force and clearness ; aud, what is even 

 still rarer, his writing is seasoned with most pleasant wit. We 

 all laughed heartily over some of the sentences. . . . Who 

 can it be? Certainly I should have said that there was only 

 one man in England who could have written this essay, and 

 that you were the man ; but I suppose that I am wrong, and that 

 there is some hidden genius of great calibre ; for how could you 

 influence Jupiter Olympus and make him give you three and a 

 half columns to pure science? The old fogies will think the 

 world will come to an end. Well, whoever the man is, he has 

 done great service to the cause." 



The essay in the Times was followed shortly after- 

 wards by a " Friday Evening Discourse " in i860 on 

 " Species, Races, and their Origin," in which Huxlej-, 

 addressing a cultivated audience, laid the whole weight 

 of his brilliant scientific reputation on the side of evo- 

 lution. Next, in April, i860, he published a long 

 article in the Westminster Review, then a leading organ 

 of advanced opinion, on The Origin of Species, some quo- 

 tations from which article were made in the last chap- 

 ter. Apart from its strong support of the doctrine of 

 evolution, its whole-hearted praise of Darwin's achieve- 

 ments, and the clear way in which, while it show^ed 

 the value of natural selection as the only satisfac- 

 tory hypothesis in the field, it gave reasons for regard- 

 ing it strictly as an hypothesis, the review is specially 



