Essays and Criticisms (1892)
by St George Jackson Mivart (9780217713047)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EVOLUTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. A REPLY TO PROFESSOR HUXLEY. reading the criticism which Professor Huxley has done me the honour to make upon a little book (the Genesis of Species) which I ventured to publish ha the early part of this year,1 I felt that I was being severely reprimanded by my superior officer; that I might apprehend a sentence of degradation to the ranks, if not actual expulsion from the service. I found myself taxed, if not with positive desertion to an enemy with whom no truce is to be allowed, yet, at least, suspected of treasonable communication with a hostile army, and treacherous dalliance with ministers of Baal. Now, recognising as I do that, in physical science, Professor Huxley has just claims to respect and deference on the part of all scientific men, I also feel that I am under special obligations to him, both many and deep, for knowledge imparted and for ready assistance kindly rendered. No wonder then that the expression of his vehement disapproval is painful to me. It was not however without surprise that I learned that my one unpardonable sin?the one great offence disqualifying me for being ' a loyal soldier of science'?was my attempt to show that there is no real antagonism between the Christian religion and evolution My Genesis of Species was written with two main objects:? My first object was to show that the Darwinian theory is 1 i.e. in 1870. untenable, and that natural selection is not the origin of species. This was and is my conviction purely as a man of science, and I maintain it upon scientific grounds only. My second object was to demonstrate that nothing even in Mr. Darwin's theory, as then put forth, and it fortiori in evolution generally, was necessarily antagonistic to Christianity. Professor Huxley ignoring...

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