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that we would fall, did we not keep moving our feet fast enough 

 to prevent it. On the single wheel most of us would fail, because 

 from lack of experience we would make the wheel go too fast, 

 and so would fall backward ; or else, not fast enough to keep from 

 falling on our faces. As to falling sidewise, that is prevented 

 exactly as when both wheels are used the rider turns the cross- 

 bar to the right or left, and propels the machine in that direc- 

 tion. Experience, a level head, and a steady hand tell how far to 

 turn it. 



From mere inspection of Fig. 6 we see that safety against 

 headers varies inversely as the height of the saddle, and directly 

 as the distance from the foot of the perpendicular A D to the for- 

 ward point of support B (Figs. 6 and 7). In other words, the 

 higher the saddle, the greater the danger of headers ; and the far- 

 ther back, the less the danger. 



As to the law of lateral safety i. e., against falling sidewise 

 it is in one respect the reverse of the other, for the greater the 

 height of the saddle, the easier not to fall to either side, just as it 

 is easier to keep upright on the end of my finger a long stick than 

 a short one. 



PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON THE WAR-PATH. 



By the DUKE OF AEGYLL. 

 I. 



ON the boundless subject of religion it is not possible for any 

 man, within the limits of a magazine article, to set forth his 

 whole mind. If those who write such papers have cause to feel 

 this, those who read them have not less occasion to remember it. 

 Misconception is a constant danger. Beliefs which seem to be 

 vehemently repudiated may nevertheless retain some hold when 

 differently expressed. Doctrines which seem to be insisted on 

 with passion may yet not be held without important modifica- 

 tions. These reserves may not be expressed only because the 

 occasion for expressing them did not seem to arise. Large por- 

 tions of the whole subject may be left out of view. Those which 

 are actually dealt with may be treated, from the accidents of con- 

 troversy, in a narrow and angry spirit. 



It is with a sincere desire to remember all these reasons for 

 caution that I now call attention to the article by Prof. Huxley 

 published in this Review for the month of July, 1890.* But, in 

 full remembrance of the caution, we may fairly say that this 

 article is an open and avowed attack upon Christianity. Nobody 

 has any right to complain of this. But everybody has a right to 



* Ninteenth Century, July, 1890, The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science. 



