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breeding," we are to understand by this that he 

 does not adopt it at all. For, as he is careful to 

 add, " Our acceptance of the Darwinian hypo- 

 thesis must be provisional so long as one link in 

 the chain of evidence is wanting ; and so long 

 as all the animals and plants certainly produced 

 by selective breeding from a common stock 

 are fertile with one another, that link will be 

 wanting." l 



So long then as Nature remains what it is, 

 "that link," Mr. Huxley himself being witness, 

 will still be " wanting." And yet Mr. Darwin 

 can say " If a single link in this chain had 

 never existed " ! According to Mr. Darwin, 

 Man is what he is, because he has been inextric- 

 ably linked with the lower animals with the 

 " ascidian," with the " primordial form " by a 

 chain of which no " single link " is wanting. Ac- 

 cording to Mr. Huxley, Man is what he is, not- 

 withstanding the chasms in Mr. Darwin's imag- 

 inary chain : chasms which . Mr. Darwin cannot 

 cross except by " steps " imaginary and aerial, 

 which it is " not difficult to conceive " ; but still 

 "steps" which have no corresponding "links" in 

 the world of physiology and fact ; steps which 

 cannot be taken at all not even in imagination 

 without reversing the Constitution and Course 

 1 u Man's Place in Nature," p. 107. 



