The Struggle for Existence
The vast and varied procession of events which we call Nature affords a sublime spectacle and an inexhaustible wealth of attractive problems to the speculative observer. If we confine our attention to that aspect which engages the attention of the intellect, Nature appears a beautiful and harmonious whole, the incarnation of a faultless logical process, from certain premises in the past to an inevitable conclusion in the future. But if she be regarded from a less elevated, but more human, point of view; if our moral sympathies are allowed to influence our judgment, and we permit ourselves to criticise our great mother as we criticise one another - then our verdict, at least so far as sentient Nature is concerned, can hardly be so favorable. In sober truth, to those who have made a study of the phenomena of life as they are exhibited by the higher forms of the animal world, the optimistic dogma that this is the best of all possible worlds will seem little better than a libel upon possibility. It is really only another instance to be added to the many extant, of the audacity of a priori speculators who, having created God in their own image, find no difficulty in assuming that the Almighty must have been actuated by the same motives as themselves. They are quite sure that, had any other course been practicable, he would no more have made infinite suffering a necessary ingredient of his handiwork than a respectable philosopher would have done the like...
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Thomas henry Huxley
**Thomas Henry Huxley** (1825–1895) était un biologiste, philosophe et pédagogue britannique, souvent surnommé le « bouledogue de Darwin » pour sa défense ardente de la théorie de l’évolution. Il a marqué son époque par ses travaux en sciences naturelles et ses réflexions sur la place de l’homme dans la nature. Son ouvrage sur **Hume** témoigne de son intérêt pour la philosophie et de sa capacité à rendre accessibles les idées complexes. Huxley est aussi connu pour ses débats publics sur la relation entre science et religion.
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