PREFACE. 



THEKE is a remark of Mrs. Carlyle s which has 

 always seemed to me highly suggestive. When 

 asked to explain her manifest antipathy to Bishop 

 Colenso, whom Mr. Froude had got invited to 

 one of her tea-parties, she confessed that it arose 

 in part from the anomalous appearance presented 

 by &quot;a man arrived at the years of discretion 

 wearing an absurd little black-silk apron,&quot; and in 

 part from the incongruity between that ecclesias 

 tical symbol and this particular bishop s &quot; arith 

 metical confutation of the Bible ; &quot; for, proceeds 

 the philosophical lady, generalizing the causes of 

 her unfavorable impressions, &quot; it is the mixing up 

 of things which is the Great Bad. &quot; 



In what passes with us for the doctrine of evo 

 lution there is a mixture of science and specula 

 tion. Yet it is customary to serve it all up to 

 gether, so that the hungry soul must needs take 

 all or none. The result for many minds is apt to 

 be indigestion or starvation. But this cruel di- 



