82 WHAT IS DARWINISM? 



In the '" Academy " for October, 1869, there is 

 a review by Professor Huxley of Dr. Haeckel's 

 " Naturlische Schopfungsgeschichte," in which 

 he says : " Professor Haeckel enlarges on the 

 service which the ' Origin of Species ' has done 

 in favoring what he terms ' the causal or me- 

 chanical ' view of living nature as opposed to 

 the ' teleological or vitalistic ' view. And no 

 doubt it is quite true the doctrine of evolution 

 is the most formidable of all the commoner and 

 coarser forms of teleology. Perhaps the most 

 remarkable service to the philosophy of Bio- 

 logy rendered by Mr. Darwin is the reconcilia- 

 tion of Teleology and Morphology, and the 

 explanation of the facts of both which his 

 view offers. 



" The teleology which supposes that the eye, 



Professor Huxley goes on in the next paragraph to say : " Mr. 

 Mivart asserts that ' without belief in a personal God there is no 

 religion worthy of the name.' This is a matter of opinion. But 

 it may be asserted, with less reason to fear contradiction, that 

 the worship of a personal God, who, on Mr. Mivart's hypothesis, 

 must have used words studiously calculated to deceive his 

 creatures and worshippers, is 'no religion worthy of the name.' 

 ' Incredibile est, Deum illis verbis ad populum fuisse locutum 

 quibis deciperetur, ' is a verdict in which for once Jesuit casuis- 

 try concurs with the healthy moral sense of all mankind." 

 (p. 458). Mr. Huxley calls believers in the Scriptures, and 

 (apparently) believers in a personal God, bigots, old ladies of 

 both sexes, bibliolators, fools, etc., etc. 



