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THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES*
by Thomas H. Huxley

[footnote] *'The Westminster Review', April 1860.
MR. DARWIN'S long-standing and well-earned scientific eminence
probably renders him indifferent to that social notoriety which passes
by the name of success; but if the calm spirit of the philosopher have
not yet wholly superseded the ambition and the vanity of the carnal
man within him, he must be well satisfied with the results of his
venture in publishing the 'Origin of Species'. Overflowing the narrow
bounds of purely scientific circles, the "species question" divides with
Italy and the Volunteers the attention of general society. Everybody has
read Mr. Darwin's book, or, at least, has given an opinion upon its
merits or demerits; pietists, whether lay or ecclesiastic, decry it with the
mild railing which sounds so charitable; bigots denounce it with
ignorant invective; old ladies of both sexes consider it a decidedly
dangerous book, and even savants, who have no better mud to throw,
quote antiquated writers to show that its author is no better than an ape
himself; while every philosophical thinker hails it as a veritable
Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism; and all competent
naturalists and physiologists, whatever their opinions as to the ultimate
fate of the doctrines put forth, acknowledge that the work in which they
are embodied is a solid contribution to knowledge and inaugurates a
new epoch in natural history.
Nor has the discussion of the subject been restrained within the limits
of conversation. When the public is eager and interested, reviewers
must minister to its wants; and the genuine 'litterateur' is too much in
the habit of acquiring his knowledge from the book he judges--as the

Abyssinian is said to provide himself with steaks from the ox which
carries him--to be withheld from criticism of a profound scientific work
by the mere want of the requisite preliminary scientific acquirement;
while, on the