44 Scientific Sophisms. 



" No doubt man, as well as every other 

 animal, presents structures which, as far as we 

 can judge with our little knowledge, are not 

 now of any service to him, nor have been so 

 during any former period of his existence, 

 either in relation to his general condition of 

 life, or of one sex to the other. Such struc- 

 tures cannot be accounted for by any form of 

 selection, or by the inherited effects of the use 

 and disuse of parts." 



Here, then, we have the fullest recognition of 

 the validity of objections which are absolutely 

 fatal to his whole doctrine. But with this 

 recognition, what becomes of " verification " ? 



Mr. Darwin's doctrine, however, constitutes a 

 very small part of that " theoretic conception " 

 which, under the name of Evolution, is now 

 declared by Professor Huxley to be no longer 

 "a matter of speculation and argument," but 

 on the contrary, has " become a matter of fact 

 and history." " The history of Evolution," he 

 adds, "as a matter of fact, is now distinctly 

 traceable. We know it has happened, and what 

 remains is the subordinate question of how it 

 happened." l 



It is to be observed, however, that the " Evo- 



1 " Address at Buffalo," August 25th. Reported in 

 The Times of Sept. 14, 1876. 



