Evolution. 5 1 



tered by this conception, arise solely from the 

 fact that the theologic conception obtained a 

 prior footing in the human mind. Did the 

 latter depend upon reasoning alone, it could 

 not hold its ground for an hour against its 

 rival. . . . Were not man's origin im- 

 plicated, we should accept without a murmur 

 the derivation of animal and vegetable life from 

 what we call inorganic nature. The conclusion 

 of pure intellect points this way and no 

 other." * 



In other words and to sum up all that has 

 been said in one short but authoritative sen- 

 tence " The doctrine of Evolution derives man 

 in his totality from the interaction of organism 

 and - environment through countless ages 

 past." 2 



And this it does, whatever may become of 

 Darwinism. On this head, a* well as on the 

 illimitable sphere of its operation, we have the 

 final conclusion of Professor Huxley : 



" But even leaving Mr. Darwin's views aside, 

 the whole analogy of natural operations furnishes 

 so complete and crushing an argument against 

 the intervention of any but what are termed 



1 "Materialism and its Opponents." Fortnightly Re- 

 view, vol. xviii. pp. 596, 597. 



2 Prof. Tyndall's " Belfast Address," p. 59. 



