08.29.09
The hidden heretics
Returning to “on Growth and Form” after several decades it is possible to better comprehend what Thompson was trying to say. In his own words:
The fact that I set little store by certain postulates (often deemed to be fundamental) of our present day biology the reader will have discovered and I have not endeavored to conceal. But it is not for the sake of polemical argument that I have written, and the doctrines which I do not subscribe to I have only spoken of by the way
He was referring to Darwinism.