CHAP. XIV.] A POSTSCRIPT. 447 



script. In that republication Professor Huxley, disregard 

 ing my exposure of his misrepresentations as to my 

 arguments, and his misquotation even of my very words, 

 attempts adroitly to shift the issue, and to represent that I 

 have maintained that which I never said, which was never 

 present to my mind, and which is manifestly absurd. Most 

 willingly do /leave the &quot; issue alone to the judgment of the 

 public,&quot; taking the liberty on my part however Resuoanent 

 to state once more what is the true point at issue. 

 I had maintained, and do maintain, that &quot; ancient and most 

 venerable theological authorities distinctly assert derivative 

 creation, and thus their teachings harmonize with all that 

 modern science can possibly require.&quot; In reply to this Pro 

 fessor Huxley has shown, what no one dreamed of denying, 

 that Suarez rejected St. Augustin s view as to the fact of 

 creation ; but in the first place that does not even tend to 

 disprove what I alleged, namely, that ancient and most 

 venerable authorities did assert derivative creation ; nor does 

 it render the testimony of Suarez himself one bit less valuable 

 as to the validity of the principles on which the doctrine of 

 derivative creation reposes, principles explicitly stated by 

 himself. On the contrary, his testimony in this respect is 

 all the more valuable as such principles could not have been 

 laid down to serve any special theory of his own which he 

 desired to maintain. 



The &quot; ignorantia denchi&quot; of Professor Huxley s reply was 

 so obvious that it is difficult indeed to credit one so ready 

 witted, with an honest blindness to its defects. The result of 

 the issue which I raised, and Professor Huxley accepted, is 

 so palpable, that I may well cite his own words addressed by 

 him * to Professor Owen in another controversy : 



&quot;The question has thus become one of personal veracity. For 

 myself I will accept no other issue than this, grave as it is, to the 

 present controversy.&quot; 



Man s Place in Nature, p. 118. 



