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base because dogs possess it ? The common-sense 

 of the mass of mankind will answer those questions 

 without a moment's hesitation. Nay more, thought- 

 ful men, once escaped from the blinding influences 

 of traditional prejudice, will find in the lowly stock 

 whence man has sprung, the best evidence of the 

 splendour of his capacities ; and will discern in 

 his long progress through the past, a reasonable 

 ground of faith in his attainment of a nobler future." 



In the volume entitled " Darwiniana," which is 

 Volume II. of the series of Collected Essays, and 

 which was first printed in 1893, and repeatedly re- 

 issued, Huxley brought together most of the argu- 

 ments he had used to support Darwin's hypothesis, 

 which were scattered tlnroughout his speeches and 

 writings since 1859. The volume contains also his 

 answers to most of the serious criticisms to which 

 Darwin's work was exposed, but, in addition, leaves 

 on record Huxley's own impression of the great 

 evolutionist, and sums up his deUberate conviction 

 of what the result of Darwin's work would be in the 

 immediate and remote future. 



Some of the other contents are Huxley's lectures 

 to working-men as originally given, and contain, as 

 he says, the ABC of the great biological problem 

 as it was set before a body of shrewd artisans. These 

 six lectures constitute the last section of the book, 

 under the general description of a knowledge of the 

 causes of the phenomena of organic nature. Pos- 

 sibly the most interesting portion of the work to us 

 is that which deals -^ith the personahty of Darwin — 

 addresses contained in three chapters. One of these 

 appeared in Nature ; the second was his address as 

 President of the Royal Society on handing over the 



