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been no Darwin, would be one of those unkind cuts, 

 the cruelty of which lies in its truth. 

 It is equally true that if there had been no Lincoln 

 there would have been no Grant ; but Grant was a very 

 great man, just the same so why raise the issue ! 

 Darwin summed up and made nebulae of the truths 

 which Huxley had, up to that time, held only in gas- 

 eous form. 



Darwin was born in the immortal year 1809. Huxley 

 was born in 1825. When " The Origin of Species ' was 

 published in 1859, Huxley was thirty-four years old. 

 He had made his four years' trip around the world on 

 the surveying ship " Rattlesnake," just as Darwin had 

 made his eventful voyage on the " Beagle." 

 These men in many ways had paralleled each other, 

 but Darwin had sixteen years the start, and during 

 these years he had steadily and silently worked to 

 prove the great truth that he had sensed intuitively 

 years before, in the South Seas. 



"The Origin of Species" sheds light in ten thousand 

 ways on the fact that all life has evolved from very 

 lowly forms and is still ascending that species were 

 not created by fiat, but that every species was the sure 

 and necessary result of certain conditions. 

 Until "The Origin of Species" was published, and for 

 some years afterward, the Immutability of Species was 

 taught in all colleges, and everywhere accepted by the 

 so-called learned men. 



Goethe had dimly prophesied the discovery of the Law 

 of Evolution, but his ideas on natural science were 

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