The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-19

pms have given lima fine clear type In "''ic"
- .os,i,tlc new lights and explain his own
views.
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Criticisms on Dar,cin and Adnlln,strau1E.e
Hyhilisa,. BY T. Fl. HUXLEY, LID, ~ ;;
RS. Author of Mans Place in NATURE.
New York D. APPLETON & GO.
This is 4 pamphlet containing cri''cisn'
ON the criticisms on DARWIN, and chap'ei
on Administrative Nihilism. Mr.. hUxLhf >
a partisan of DARWIN, though here and tneIe
in his critioue disclaiming advocacy Oh Ms
theory in its entirety. What Mr.. uU1LEf
has to say is too critical to be cdifying. re.
Al, intelligent readers will want to see WIEN
he has to say on the questions OF winch ne
sno,ks. The fact is be knows too mucn-''
do other, of his contemporaries. Dlsolio'i';
much that the civilized world has espouseu
and believes through the eye OF latin, Us 9l!-
,oscd 70 reason and science, he falls lnto Il
NJ, q, another road. He compensatcs hini-
t,,f for his incredibly on the one hano og
Incoming dcroutly crcdulous i'll mysteries Is
,,re,t us those he has discarded, and creating
in his fancy utopias that are to be the hc''-
ycns of unalloyed peace, content, ana gene
ri intelligence, apparently, in this world
This i the error of I,lll-mad savants OF every
ace: and although they rig up new theories
and sail to-day under the phrases OF "or1S'n
of snccies," "evouton," and "natural Sc
lectiu"-coing to show that things created
and gradually developed themselves-his-
tory. through them, is but repeating lse''
and disn]ayirc in luatcrialism aproneness 10
belief in things as mysterious ana ln1osSl-
bile to mere organic laws as the mysteries OF
religion generally received by the civilized
world.
Great men of this class arc not lnclneo 10
do things by halves, and hence they "o'lo
frame society and the poity OF government
mon the basis Of rationaiSm exclusively
Yct in the very economy Of their plans lurk
all the time the visionary mysteries OF 'hcii
own creation, which arc utterly Incompatible
with their matcrillism so prone Is man 10
cool, after the supernatural links which con-
meet him with higher and purer existence
So Mr.. HUXLEY in his chapter on Nlllllsm
presents Us That same sort Of fnciful govern
mcnt which the French philosophers offered
the world in the last century, and which Gull
minated in tue installation of a prostitute rs
the goddess Of reason. Mr.. HUXLEY, eN-
GLIDING all things but reason and science
from the school, under the administration OF
The State. draws the following golden picture
Of the pcrlcction to which society will be
elevated:
'To sum up: IF the positive advancement,
Of the peace, wealth, and the intellectual an"
moral development Of its members, are or
;crtS which the Government, As the lrl'fcs''H-
tatn.r Gf The corporate authority Oh society
nav Justly strive after il 1IIllilmcllt OF us
nDd-t.c good Of manl;ind-then 1t Is c1caF
-hat the Government MY undertake 10 eou-
;-,tc he people, for education promotes peicc
" tcaclin. men the realities OF lie ana Tic
oilirations which are involved III inc very
.yi>lcncc of society; it promotes intelicctual
,leyclopmcnt, not only by training the lidl-
,id,,al intellect. hut By sitting out from the
uq>>c. Of the Ordinary OF inferior cal"citles
hose which are competent to increase Tue
General welfare by occupying higher posi-
lions: and lastly, it promotes morality ana
refinement by teachin" men to discipline
themselves, and by leading: them to see tllat
,lc highest. is it is the only permanent, con
tent * to he attained not hy grofclling III the
rank and steaming valleys Of sense. but by
continually striving towards those high peaks
where. resting in eternal calm, reason dis
Germs the underlined but bright ideal OF the
highest gnod-'a cloud hy day: 4 pillar OF
lire by night"
This is fine talk for an inGdcl! We think
the description of this grand creation of hui
man vanity might he better defined as "rl>inG
from tie crovcliing" existence i'll the "yai-
leys Of sense" to tic "ligh peaks " Of nom
.c,Sc! Pcoplcare always building the tower
If Babel over again. For our part, rather
han live in the land where the crazy intidcls
and scientific drcamcys should mould the in
StitutionS. we would by all odds prefer to
take our chances III frontier life amongst the
heroic, reckless, and rough, yet generous III
habitauts who wage the battle of life that Is
teeming with peril and conflict. One might
stand i chance to become ennoblcd there
but we could never hope forthe peaks of Mr..
HrxLEY's dream in land where his theories
were in the ascendant. Such a land would
ne doomed to furnish another lesson upon
the folly Of human conceit and the ruin that
is sure to come upon nations which imagine
they have discovered the way to human per
irctiiility and happincss'in this world.
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.Nyhunsned All and HIS House. An Histo
rical Romance. By l.. MUuLBAcK, Author
of "Joseph H. and lis Court" dc. Trans
lated from the German by CHAPMAN COLE
MAN. New York: d. APPLETON Il co.
Miss GunLBAcK having exhausted pretty
much her material for historical novels il
Christian Europe, emgrites to the Ottoman
Empire, where material is warmer and where
dreams are more golden and make brightel
web for the novclist's story. Miss Null
BACK has had undoubtedly vast deal Of eX
perience in manufacturing historical novels
and her admirers will be curious to see wha
she achieves in the wonderful Eastern land
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