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Sedgwick, &c., have unanimously, often vehemently, maim- 
tained the immutability of Spectes.” 
Lyell being, however, claimed as a later convert 
from the unanimity of the great Geologists. 
But persons who have raised their voices, vehemently, 
or calmly, in defence of the Revealed Record, as against 
the speculations of those learned men who, having this 
theory on the brain, have ransacked nature for facts to 
support it, are more than “scouted.” Professor Parker, 
in his ninth Hunterian Lecture, brings forward Bacon 
(who, whatever else he was writing of, certainly was not 
occupied with Darwinism), as saying that those who 
uphold the idea that God works except by ‘ second causes, 
are guilty of offering ‘to the Author of Truth the sacrifice 
of a lie, 
And further implies that those who uphold “ the 
book of God’s word ;” against the new book of man’s word, 
are simply doing so to curry favour with God. 
Certainly Bacon encourages philosophers to a pro- 
ficience in the Book of God’s works, but he warns them 
to apply it “to charity and not to swelling.” 
What do others feel when, noting the spirit in which 
their faith is handled, Dr. Réville even can write, ‘‘ M/r. 
Gladstone is quite right in protesting against the brutality 
with which the venerable roots of the ancient faith are 
sometimes treated.” 
Westcott, is then quoted by Parker as saying, in his 
‘Gospel of the Resurrection,’ “ Zheology accepts without 
the least reserve the conclusions of Science as such.” 
This is manifestly quoted to lead men to believe that 
Dr. Westcott’s view is, that Theologians accept ‘‘ without 
the least reserve” the scientific conclusion which is the 
burden of the honeyed song to which Professor Parker’s 
lectures are set, viz., the Darwinian Funeral Chant. 
