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A Critical Examination of "On The Origin of Species"
A Critical Examination of On The Origin of Species Author:Thomas H. Huxley From the Book: — "IN the preceding five lectures I have endeavoured to give you an accountof those facts, and of those reasonings from facts, which form the data upon which all theories regarding the causes of the phenomena of organic nature must be based. And, although I have had frequent occasion to quote Mr. Darwin--as all persons hereafter, ... more »in speaking upon these subjects, will have occasion to quote his famous book on the
"Origin of Species,"--you must yet remember that, it has not been upon theoretical points, or for statements in any way connected with his particular speculations, but on matters of fact, brought forward by himself, or collected by himself, and which appear incidentally in his book. If a man 'will' make a book, professing to discuss a single question, an encyclopedia.