10 Teachings of ThomasHuxley 



PART II. 



v HIB TEACHINGS. 



I. 



Biological Teachings. 



ORIOIN OF THE UNIVERSE. 



A primary requisite of any system of phil- 

 osophy or religion worthy of recognition is the 

 formation of some definite notion of the be- 

 ginning of the world in the cosmos. At best 

 this can be little more than a matter of specula- 

 tion based upon such evidence as has thus far 

 been furnished by the study of natural phe- 

 nomena and their development into what we are 

 pleased to call the physical sciences. But the 

 imperfection of such records as evidenced to us 

 through the Bei 3< - is at once manifest, and con- 

 sequently these data admit of no end of various 

 interpretations, any our of which it is difficult 

 tooverthrow by mere abstract reasoning. Before 

 the era of scientific inquiry Man was content 

 to sit in darkness in reference to his relation 



