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APPENDIX. 
In the course of a discussion arising out of the paper read by 
Mr. Nutter, on Evolution, (see page 45), in which Mr. Darwin’s 
name was necessarily introduced; Mr. F. H. Hill said,—that 
Carlyle considered Prof. Darwin ‘‘a good sort of man and well 
meaning, but with very little intellect,” and that ‘it was a sad 
and terrible thing to find nigh a whole generation of men and 
women professing to be cultivated, looking round in a purblind 
fashion and finding no God in the Universe, but all things from 
frogs’ spawn the Gospel of dirt the order of the day.” The 
authenticity of this statement having been called in question, 
Mr. Hill wrote to J. A. Froude, Esq.. M.A. The reply, which 
is given below, was read at the meeting of the Club on the 4th 
of November, (see page 77), when an anonymous paper on 
Carlyle was contributed. 
5, Onslow Gardens, 8.W., 
October 30th, 1884. 
Dear Sir, 
The passage about which you ask my opinion I believe to be 
strictly authentic, the substance of it certainly, for I have heard the same 
opinion from him very often—the language as nearly accurate as can be 
expected when one man writes down at leisure what another person has said 
to him. 
Your faithful Servant, 
J. A. FROUDE. 
To Mr. F. H. Him. 
