Essays on Darwinism (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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As I cannot reprint the various able compositions which I have attempted to answer, it will be fair, to one at least of the writers, to remark that I have personal reason to know. That he still retains the opinions of which I attempted to disabuse him. He contrives to reconcile this Obduracy to his own intelligence by laying stress on the candid admission made by Darwinians, that the Theory of Development is for the present that which they call it,-a Theory, and not a demonstration. N 0 one pretends to answer fully every objection that has been urged against the Theory. The evidence is as yet incomplete. By its very nature it must perhaps always to some extent remain so. The proof depends in part upon analogy, which leads to conclusions possible or probable, rather than to what is demonstrably certain. But the advocates of the Theory, remembering Bishop Butler's maxim, that 'to us probability is the very guide of life,' endeavour to maintain that their opinions have far more than that minimum of preponderance which, m Butler's View, not only justifies, but imperiously exacts, the adhesion of reason able beings.

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