390 REVIEWS—ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. 
which stares us in the face when we attempt to compare one type with 
another, even within the limits of the same class—as the whale with 
the sheep, for instance, and this latter with the beaver or the tiger—iz 
alone sufficient to prevent a present acceptance of the development 
theory. Between the highest apes and Man, it is true, much closer 
structural relations are shown to exist; and great weight is attached 
to this by the followers of Darwin’s school. But admitting the full 
force of these relations, the gulf required to be bridged over is equally 
great: a dumb and stationary brute-intellect on the one side—speech, 
reason, and progress, on the other. We may yet say, in the words of 
Jean Paul, if not in the exact sense in which he used them, ‘“ Der 
Mensch ist der grosse Gedankenstrich im Buche der Natur.” 
E. J. C. 
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On the Origin of Species, or the Causes of the Phenomena of Organte 
nature: A Course of Lectures to Working Men. By Thomas H. 
Huxley, F.R.S,, F.L.S., Professor of Natural History in the Jermyn 
St. School of Mines. London: Published. New York: Reprinted ; 
D. Appleton & Co., 443 & 445 Broadway—1863. 
This is a publication from the notes of the Short-hand writer, the 
lectures having been delivered extemporaneously, and the author 
having had no leisure for their revision, beyond the correction of any 
important error in a matter of fact. ‘The work has been much read, and 
hrs attracted much attention, which is only natural and reasonable con- 
sidering the varied and accurate knowledge, the high reputation and 
undoubted talents of ‘ts distinguished author, as well as the extraordin- 
ary interest excited by Darwin’s book, in which the hypothesis was 
proposed, but although anything coming from Professor Huxley must 
deserve careful consideration, and is in fact only too likely to be hastily 
accepted on his authority, the present publication involves such grave 
questions affecting the very foundations of our scientific inquiries, that 
we are not disposed to content ourselves with saying that it is an able 
work deserving of candid examination, but feel bound to enter a little 
upon the argument, and to express our reasons for not assenting to the 
hypothesis defended. 
There might at the cutset be a question raised whether Professor 
Huxley exercised a wise discretion in the choice of a subject to bring 
before such an audience as he was to address. He selected a subject 
