PREFATOKY. 



HUXLEY tells us, in his Monograph on the 

 Crayfish, that " Common - sense is science 

 exactly in so far as it fulfils the ideal of 

 common-sense ; that is, sees facts as they 

 are, or at any rate without the distortion 

 of prejudice, and reasons from them in ac- 

 cordance with the dictates of sound judg- 

 ment. And science is simply common-sense 

 at its best, that is rigidly accurate in observ- 

 ation and merciless to fallacy in logic." 



We propose to test by the common-sense 

 that Huxley says is science, whether the 

 Darwinian doctrine, that the evolution of 

 life on our planet was brought about by nat- 

 ural selection and other secondary causes, 



