Excerpt from Darwinism: And Other Essays
It is not often that the propounder of a new and startling scientific theory has lived to see his daring innovations accepted by the scientific world in general. Harvey"s great discovery of the circulation of the blood was scoffed at for nearly a whole generation; and Newtons law of gravitation, though proved by the strictest mathematical proof, received from many eminent men but a slow and grudging acquiescence.
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