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land is no longer a Christian country," and added that this burial 

 was a desecration that this honor was given him because he had 

 been " the chief promoter of the mock doctrine of evolution of 

 the species and ape descent of man " ; and this was echoed in 

 Scotland by the Rev. Dr. Lee, who was pleased to call Darwin 

 and his followers " gospelers of the gutter.^' 



Still another of these belated prophets was, of all men, Thomas 

 Carlyle. Soured and embittered, in the same spirit which led him 

 to find more heroism in a marauding Viking or in one of Fred- 

 erick the Great's generals than in Washington, or Lincoln, or 

 Grant, and which caused him to see in the American civil war 

 only " the burning out of a foul chimney," he simply saw in Dar- 

 win an " apostle of dirt worship." 



The last echoes of this sort of utterance reverberated between 

 Scotland and America. In the former country, in 1885, the Rev. 

 Dr. Lee issued a volume in which it was declared that, if the 

 Darwinian view be true, " there is no place for God " ; that " by 

 no method of interpretation can the language of Holy Scripture 

 be made wide enough to re-echo the orang-outang theory of man's 

 natural history " ; that " Darwinism reverses the revelation of 

 God " and " implies utter blasphemy against the divine and hu- 

 man character of our Incarnate Lord." In one of the intellectual 

 centers of America the editor of a periodical called The Christian 

 urged frantically that " the battle be set in array, and that men 

 find out who is on the Lord's side and who is on the side of the 

 Devil and the monkeys." 



To the honor of the Church of England it should be recorded 

 that a considerable number of its truest men opposed such utter- 

 ances as these, and that one of them Farrar, Archdeacon of West- 

 minster made a protest worthy to be held in perpetual remem- 

 brance. While confessing his own inability to accept fully the 

 new scientific belief, he said : " We should consider it disgrace- 

 ful and humiliating to try to shake it by an ad captandum argu- 

 ment, or by a claptrap platform appeal to the unfathomable igno- 

 rance and unlimited arrogance of a prejudiced assembly. We 

 should blush to meet it with an anathema or a sneer." 



All opposition had availed nothing ; Darwin's work and fame 

 were secure. As men looked back over his beautiful life simple, 

 honest, tolerant, kindly and thought upon the great truth he 

 had given to mankind, all the attacks faded into nothingness. 



There were indeed some dark spots, which as time goes on 

 appear darker. At Trinity College, Cambridge, Whewell, the 

 " omniscient," author of the History of the Inductive Sciences, 

 refused to allow a copy of the Origin of Species to be placed in 

 the library. At multitudes of institutions under theological con- 

 trol Catholic as well as Protestant attempts were made to 



