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    The Darwinian Hypothesis
    The Darwinian Hypothesis
    The Darwinian Hypothesis
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    The Darwinian Hypothesis

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      THE DARWINIAN

      HYPOTHESIS*

      BY

      THOMAS H. HUXLEY

      DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.

      THERE is a growing immensity in the speculations of science to which no human thing or thought at this day is comparable. Apart from the results which science brings us home and securely harvests, there is an expansive force and latitude in its tentative efforts, which lifts us out of ourselves and transfigures our mortality. We may have a preference for moral themes, like the Homeric sage, who had seen and known much:—

      yet we must end by confession that

      in comparison with the work of nature, to which science testifies, but which has no boundaries in time or space to which science can approximate.

      There is something altogether

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