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...days of Darwin when the church attacked the teachings of science are long since past, but last week the old argument was revived-this time by Julian Huxley, grandson of Darwin's great interpreter Thomas Huxley...
Biologist Julian Huxley, agreeing with none of them, asked leave to reply and does so in the December FORTUNE. His reply directly challenges those who try philosophically to reconcile science and religion. Presenting a coherent philosophy of man's object in life, he makes the flat assertions that...
More Science. Huxley's answer to the argument that science is insufficient to man's needs and aspirations is to demand more science: "When men assert that the scientific approach is incomplete it is because they have not been willing to follow it to its final conclusion, or because they are mistaking an early stage in its growth for full development...
...Science, Huxley points out, began with the simpler phenomena; its first triumphs were in mechanics and simple! physics; chemistry took another century. "The central fact of biology, evolution was not established until modern science had been in existence for over two hundred years. ... In the same way the science of mind developed later than biological science. What Newton was for mechanics and physics, and Darwin for biology, Freud was for psychology-the originator of a new and illuminating way of thinking...
...World Stuff. Huxley flatly rejects the philosophic dualism which divides truth into two kinds, scientific and revealed. He declares that the world, living and lifeless, mental and physical, is composed of one stuff. "In reproduction there is no moment at which life enters . . . the offspring is merely a detached portion of the parental living substance...