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in the woods and are monkeys still. The expression, 

 *'the missing link" is nowhere used by Darwin — that 

 was a creation of one of his critics. 

 Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, summed up the argu- 

 ment against Darwinism in the "Quarterly Review," by 

 declaring that " Darwin was guilty of an attempt to 

 limit the power of God;" that his book "contradicts 

 the Bible;" that "it dishonors Nature." And in a 

 speech before the British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, where Darwin was not present, the 

 Bishop repeated his assertions, and turning to Huxley, 

 asked if he really were descended from a monkey, 

 and if so, was it on his father's or his mother's side! 

 Q Huxley sat silent, refusing to reply, but the audience 

 began to clamor, and Huxley slowly arose and calmly 

 but forcibly said: "I assert and I repeat, that a man 

 has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his 

 grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should 

 feel shame in recalling, it would be a man, a man of 

 restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with 

 success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into 

 scientific questions with w^hich he has no real ac- 

 quaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhet- 

 oric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the 

 real point at issue by eloquent digression and a skillful 

 appeal to religious prejudices." 



Captain Fitz-Roy, who was present at this meeting, 

 was also called for. He was now Admiral Fitz-Roy, 

 and felt compelled to uphold his employer, the State, 

 so he upheld the State Religion and backed up the 

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