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to germinate in lower forms of life." The lectures 

 were published in 1863 in a volume entitled Evidence 

 as to Man's Place in Nature; and it was with pride 

 warranted by the results of subsequent researches 

 that Huxley, in a letter to the writer, thus refers to 

 the book when arranging for its reissue among the 

 Collected Essays — 



I was looking through Man's Place in Nature the other 

 day. I do not think there is a word I need delete, nor any- 

 thing I need add, except in confirmation and extension of the 

 doctrine there laid down. That is great good fortune for a 

 book thirty years old, and one that a very shrewd friend of 

 mine implored me not to publish, as it would certainly ruin all 

 my prospects. 



The sparse annotations to the whole series of re- 

 printed matter show that the like permanence at- 

 tends all his writings. And yet, true workman, 

 with ideal ever lying ahead, as he was, he remarked 

 to the writer that never did a book come hot from 

 the press, but he wished that he could suppress it 

 and rewrite it. 



But before dealing with the momentous issues 

 raised in Man's Place in Nature, we must return 

 to i860. For that was the " Sturm und Drang " 

 period. Then, at Oxford, " home of lost causes," as 

 Matthew Arnold apostrophizes her in the Preface to 

 his Essays in Criticism, was fought, on Saturday, 

 30th of June, a memorable duel between biologist and 

 bishop; perhaps in its issues, more memorable than 

 the historic discussion on the traditional doctrine of 



