446 LESSONS FROM NATURE. [CHAP. XTV. 



science (and as to Biology I claim to speak with some slight 

 knowledge) can conflict with Christian dogma, and there 

 fore every attempt to attack from that basis is necessarily 

 futile. 



On the other hand, so far from the Christian religion tend 

 ing to cramp or fetter intellectual development, it is notorious 

 that some of the profoundest thinkers of recent as of more 

 ancient times have been believers in Christianity, and I 

 am convinced that every man who rejects that belief is 

 ipso facto condemned not only to a moral, but also, and 

 as inevitably, to an intellectual inferiority as compared 

 with what he might attain did he accept that system 

 in its fulness. The Christian creed has long been before 

 the world. I would invite Professor Huxley to formulate 

 his system in distinct propositions, that it also may be tested 

 by our supreme and ultimate standards &quot;reason&quot; and 

 &quot; conscience.&quot; 



It remains now but to say, in conclusion, a few words 

 Mode of con- respecting the mode in which Professor Huxley has 



ersy - thought proper to conduct this controversy. 



I have already adverted (1) to the unfairness of reproach 

 ing me with an ethical error which I was so far from falling 

 into that it was specially pointed out by the Quarterly 

 Reviewer, whom he well knew to be none other than myself. 



(2) To his misrepresentation of my words (as p. 445), in 

 that he has made me appear to declare that the theologians 

 referred to asserted &quot; evolution,&quot; which he makes synony 

 mous \\itb &quot; derivative creation.&quot; 



(3) To his positive misquotation, words being placed be 

 tween inverted commas as if mine, though I never wrote or 

 published them. 



The remarkable circumstance however is, that all these 

 three errors, though I called attention to them in my reply, 

 are precisely reproduced in Professor Huxley s volume, en 

 titled Critiques and Addresses. The fact of such republi- 

 cation is the one adverted to in the opening sentence of 

 this chapter, as determining the publication of this Post- 



