THE DOGMATISM OF SCIENCE.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPILCTATOR.1 SIR,—The writer of your article on "The Dogmatism of Science" in the Spectator of December 17th seems to go out of his way to be unjust to Professor Huxley. If he had heard or read the Romanes lecture, which forever disposes of the doctrine that natural evolution can produce morality, he could not fail to see (1) that to those who have not read Hnxley's works for themselves he is giving a most unfair view of his position ; and (2) that, having allowed openness to conviction to be a characteristic of a great scientist, he is, by neglecting Huxley's denunciation of Darwinism, writing as a logician rather than as an impartial critic, and excluding him from honour which the writer has above declared to be his due. Having read "Evolution and Ethics" and the" Prolegomena," we may at least allow Huxley some of the credit which is in your article given to Dr. Russel Wallace.—I am, Sir, &c.,
W. G. W.
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