THE INTERPRETER III 



question not being peculiar to man, " but shared by 

 him with all the higher, and many of the lower apes." 

 Matters were at this point when the Origin of 

 Species appeared. 



The weighty sentence, " Light will be thrown on 

 the origin of man and his history," was not only in 

 full harmony with the conclusions at which I had ar- 

 rived, but was strongly supported by them. And in- 

 asmuch as Development and Vertebrate Anatomy 

 were not among Mr. Darwin's many specialities, it 

 appeared to me that I should not be intruding on the 

 ground he had made his own if I discussed this part 

 of the general question. In fact, I thought that I 

 might probably serve the cause of Evolution by doing 

 so. 1 



In the spring of 1861 he gave a course of weekly 

 lectures to working men, " On the Relation of Man 

 to the rest of the Animal Kingdom." This was fol- 

 lowed by an invitation from the Philosophical In- 

 stitution of Edinburgh to deliver two lectures upon 

 the same subject. As " it was only a few years since 

 that the electors to the Chair of Natural History in a 

 famous northern university had refused to invite a 

 very distinguished man to occupy it because he advo- 

 cated the doctrine of the diversity of species of man- 

 kind," Huxley was not prepared for the applause 

 with which the Edinburgh audience greeted the state- 

 ment that he entertained " no doubt of the origin of 



ill. 178. 



