“Antagonism”

Abstract

MR. COLLINS (NATURE, May 3, p. 7) claims, that Mr. Herbert Spencer anticipated Sir Wm. Grove and Prof. Huxley in the expression of the idea of antagonism. I think that priority to all of them must be given to the author of Ecclesiasticus in the Apocrypha, who says (chap. xlii., verse 24), “All things are double, one against the other. He hath made nothing imperfect.”