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Huxley its mob-orator : seeing that it was 

 founded in flat opposition to the obvious 

 and necessary significance of the reciprocity 

 and mutual interdependence of related parts 

 of organisation : a theory that Owen felt pro- 

 foundly, as Cuvier and Aristotle did before 

 him. But what did * Darwin's bull - dog,' 

 Huxley, or his audiences know or care 

 about Aristotle or potentiality ? As if they 

 had anything to do with nineteenth century 

 ' science ' ! 



II. But if, improperly, we employ the 

 term Evolution to denote the theory, that 

 species originate by descent from earlier 

 forms, or the mutability of species as op- 

 posed to the theory of their fixity, then its 

 name is not Darwinism, but Lamarckism. 

 And surely it is enough to make Lamarck 

 rise from the dead, to see that very theory 

 which got him in his own day little but 

 abuse, now quietly credited to another man. 



