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this brief all. With it there came a second, creating the author 

 an officer of the Papal Order of St. Sylvester. The Cardinal 

 Archbishop assured the astonished physician that such a double 

 honor of brief and brevet was perhaps unprecedented, and sug- 

 gested only that in a new edition of his book he should " insist 

 still a little more on the relation existing between the narratives 

 of Genesis and the discoveries of modern science, in such fashion 

 as to convince the most incredulous of their perfect agreement." 

 The prelate urged also a more dignified title. The proofs of this 

 new edition were accordingly all submitted to his Eminence, and 

 in 1882 it appeared as Moses and Darwin : the Man of Genesis 

 com^Dared with the Man -Ape, or Religious Education opposed to 

 Atheistic. No wonder the cardinal embraced the author, thank- 

 ing him in the name of science and religion. " We have at last," 

 he declared, " a handbook which we can safely put into the hands 

 of youth." 



Scarcely less vigorous were the champions of English Protes- 

 tant orthodoxy. In an address at Liverpool, Mr. Gladstone re- 

 marked : " Upon the grounds of what is termed evolution God is 

 relieved of the labor of creation ; in the name of unchangeable 

 laws he is discharged from governing the world " ; and, when Her- 

 bert Spencer called his attention to the fact that Newton with the 

 doctrine of gravitation and with the science of physical astronomy 

 is open to the same charge, Mr. Gladstone retreated in the Con- 

 temporary Review under one of his characteristic clouds of words. 

 The Rev. Dr. Coles, in the British and Foreign Evangelical Re- 

 view, declared that the God of evolution is not the Christian's God. 

 Bangor, Dean of Chichester, in a sermon preached before the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford, pathetically warned the students that " those 

 who refuse to accept the history of the creation of our first parents 

 according to its obvious literal intention, and are for substituting 

 the modern dream of evolution in its place, cause the entire scheme 

 of man's salvation to collapse." Dr. Pusey also came into the fray 

 with most earnest appeals against the new doctrine, and the Rev. 

 Gavin Carlyle was most earnest on the same side. The Society 

 for Promoting Christian Knowledge published a book by the 

 Rev. Mr. Birks, in which the evolution doctrine was declared to 

 be " flatly opposed to the fundamental doctrine of creation." 

 Even the London Times admitted a review of Darwin's Descent 

 of Man, in which it was spoken of as an " utterly unsupported 

 hypothesis," full of " unsubstantiated premises, cursory investi- 

 gations, and disintegrating speculations," and Darwin himself 

 was declared " reckless and unscientific." * 



* For the French theological opposition to the Darwinian theory, see Pozzy, La Terra 

 et le Recit Biblique de la Creation, 18*74, especially pp. 353, 363 ; also, Felix Ducane, 



