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the former point is strong enough in itself, it may be, to 

 assume into itself the position of the latter; for it is the 

 former point that seems alone to occupy the greater part 

 of the chapter. This is double-edged. If you reproach 

 me, as is the gist of the writing, with rejecting Darwin- 

 ianism because of orthodoxy, may not I, with at least 

 equal reason, reproach you with hatred of orthodoxy as 

 your sole motive for clutching to it ? If you cast up to 

 me my fanaticism for religion, may not I cast up to you 

 your fanaticism against it ? Nay, in these days and on 

 this level, can it be said that the former fanaticism is 

 still in existence that that horrible odium theologicum is 

 at all there for your fanaticism to fling itself against ? 



For the last hundred years, the Aufkldrung has been 

 admitted as an historical fact ; but, equally as historical 

 fact, there has to be admitted now the correction of it, 

 what we may call the Aufkldrung No. 2. No. 1 denied 

 the spirit because of the letter. No. 2, so far as it 

 can, accepts the letter because of the spirit. So far as 

 Christianity is concerned, the dictum of Mr. Gladstone is 

 to be considered as very well in place. In a letter of 

 his to the Eev. Alexander Webster, Aberdeen, as pub- 

 lished in the Scotsman, he has these words : " As for 

 myself, I build upon historical Christianity, the great 

 world-fact of 1800 years." The Christian civilisation, 

 that is, after the pagan or, better, the classical pagan 

 civilisation is now the blood in our veins ; and by the 

 right of it even a so-called atheist is substantially a 

 Christian. It is but vulgarity for any one nowadays, 

 harking back to the Aufkldrung No. 1, to talk, so to 

 speak, the shop of it. 



As regards the second point here, or the reason for 

 Mr. Huxley's relative position, it seems to me, as said, 

 to be simply lost in the breadth of the first ; any single- 

 ness of scientific interest has betaken itself thither, and 



