. Thomas Henry Huxley; a sketch of his life and work. Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895. Darwin's Voyage 29 spread. He realised on his voyage that species had come into existence by descent with modification, and before long he was to publish to the world in the Origin of Species a vast and convincing bulk of evidence as to the actual fact of a common descent for all the different existing organisms, and, in his theory of natural selec- tion, a reasonable explanation of how the fact of evolu- tion had come about. Darwin's greatest ally in bringing the new idea before the world was Huxley, and Hu
. Thomas Henry Huxley; a sketch of his life and work. Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895. Darwin's Voyage 29 spread. He realised on his voyage that species had come into existence by descent with modification, and before long he was to publish to the world in the Origin of Species a vast and convincing bulk of evidence as to the actual fact of a common descent for all the different existing organisms, and, in his theory of natural selec- tion, a reasonable explanation of how the fact of evolu- tion had come about. Darwin's greatest ally in bringing the new idea before the world was Huxley, and Huxley was teaching himself the absolute unity of the living world. The two men were dissimilar in tastes and temperament, and they were at work on quite different sides of nature. When the time came, Huxley, with his commanding knowledge of the structure of animals, was ready to support Darwin and to illustrate and amplify his arguments by a thousand anatomical proofs. It is a curious and dramatic coincidence to realise that both men learned their very different lessons under very similar circumstances in the tropical seas of the Southern Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mitchell, P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers), Sir, 1864-1945. New York, Putnam
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