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THE review of Dr. Roux's work on the “Struggle of Parts in the Organism” by Mr. Geo. J. Romanes which appears in your number of September 29 (p. 505) contains some passages which, I venture to think, are hardly conistent with the purpose to which the columns of NATURE are devoted. I understand that purpose to be the discussion of scientific facts and scientific laws, properly so called. I should be the last to deny that these facts and these laws may have, and indeed must have, their own ultimate bearing upon theology, whether natural or revealed. But it is not the purpose of a purely scientific journal to enter upon this discussion; it is one which cannot be there pursued without involving controversies alien to the spirit in which physical science ought to be studied and explained.
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ARGYLL Struggle of Parts in the Organism. Nature 24, 581 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024581b0
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