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lida, Echinodermata, and Arthropoda^ while the 

 other, b, gave rise to the Polyzoa and Ascidioida, 

 and produced the two remaining stirpes of the 

 Vertebrata and the Mollusca." 1 



Many persons will agree with Mr. Huxley so 

 far as to admit that Professor Haeckel is not 

 destitute either of " sound knowledge," or of 

 " great ingenuity," who yet think Mr. Huxley in 

 error when he represents his favourite Professor 

 as possessing these characteristics in combina- 

 tion. As displayed in his "speculations on 

 Phylogeny," they appear to be not so much in 

 combination as in opposition. Each invades 

 the province of the other. Take away the 

 " knowledge," and you clear the field for the 

 u ingenuity " : but where " sound knowledge " is 

 supreme, " great ingenuity " is superfluous. He 

 who finds it " more profitable to go wrong than 

 to stand still," may indeed display "great 

 ingenuity," but the soundness of his "know- 

 ledge " is by no means unquestionable. 



Take, for example, this very summary of " his 

 views," as here given by Professor Huxley. 

 What he does " view " is something not actual 

 and real, but ideal only. He does not "prove"; 

 he does not even assign reasons for belief ; but, 



1 "Critiques and Addresses." Macmillan, 1873, pp. 

 314,315. 



