CHAPTER VI

HUXLEY AND DARWIN 89

Early Ideas on Evolution--Erasmus Darwin--Lamarck--Herbert
Spencer--Difference between Evolution and Natural
Selection--Huxley's Preparation for Evolution--The Novelty of
Natural Selection--The Advantage of Natural Selection as a Working
Hypothesis--Huxley's Unchanged Position with regard to Evolution
and Natural Selection from 1860 to 1894.


CHAPTER VII

THE BATTLE FOR EVOLUTION 110

Huxley's Prevision of the Battle--The Causes of the Battle--The
_Times_ Review--Sir Richard Owen attacks Darwinism in the
_Edinburgh Review_--Bishop Wilberforce attacks in the _Quarterly
Review_--Huxley's Scathing Replies--The British Association
Debates at Oxford--Huxley and Wilberforce--Résumé of Huxley's
Exact Position with Regard to Evolution and to Natural Selection.


CHAPTER VIII

VERTEBRATE ANATOMY 128