...persuade where he cannot convince. which harmonize with, or receive an explanation from, his doctrines. I adopt Mr. Darwin's hypothesis, therefore, subject...light, subject to the proof of the existence of the hypothetical'ether ; or as the chemist adopts the atomic theory, subject to the proof of the existence...

...the Copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions." (p. 127)- Again, he says, "I adopt Mr. Darwin's hypothesis, therefore, subject...physiological species may be produced by selective breeding." (page 128). Prof. Huxley with very little ceremony throws aside the arrange* ment of Cuvier, respecting...

...the proof, which compels him, in a distinctly guarded manner, to qualify his concession, as follows: "I adopt Mr. Darwin's hypothesis, therefore, subject...physiological species may be produced by selective breeding." p. 128. The production is to be without any constraint upon the parent species, or when they are in...

...the proof, which compels him, in a distinctly guarded manner, to qualify his concession, as follows : "I adopt Mr. Darwin's hypothesis, therefore, subject...physiological species may be produced by selective breeding." p. 128. The production is to be without any constraint upon the parent species, or when they are hi...

...breed, their progeny is not fertile inter se." Prof. Huxley therefore adopts Mr. Darwin's hypothesis, " subject to the production " of proof that physiological...breeding: just as a physical philosopher may accept the un" dulatory theory of light subject to the proof of the existence of " hypothetical ether ; or as...

...the Darwinian school ia somewhat anomalous. In his principal work upon the question he remarks : ' I adopt Mr. Darwin's hypothesis, therefore, subject...accept the undulatory theory of light subject to the existence of the hypothetical ether." This was published in January 1863, but in November 1871 the...

...Theorien einer Wissenschaft direct für eine andere verwerthen will. Huxley adopted Darwin's hypothesis subject to the production of proof, that physiological...species may be produced by selective breeding, just äs a physical philosopher may accept the undulatory theory of light subject to the existence of the...

...direct ftir eine andere verwerthen will. Hnxley adopted Darwin's hypothesis subject to the producti<>n of proof, that physiological species may be produced by selective breeding, just äs a physical philosopher may accept tk undulatory theory of light subject to the existence of the...

...better than Mr. Huxley himself. When therefore he tells us that he adopts Mr. Darwin's hypothesis, " subject to the production of proof that physiological species may be produced by selective 1 Vide Appendix, Note C. breeding," we are to understand by this that he does not adopt it at all....

...ground for doubting that man might have originated by the gradual modification of a man-like ape. . . . I adopt Mr. Darwin's hypothesis, therefore, subject...physiological species may be produced by selective breeding." (Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature, pp. 105 — 8.) But this is the very thing which neither Darwin...