I 36 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VoL. XXXV. 
regarded as antagonistic, are open to a different interpretation. 
Since it has not been definitely disproven, and especially since 
no other view has been advanced which explains all of the 
facts of the case as well, we may justly regard Huxley’s theory 
as entitled to first leration, even at the present day. 
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