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tic " was beaten. Cardinal Manning declared Dar- 

 winism to be a " brutal philosophy, to wit, there is 

 no God and the ape is our Adam." Protestant and 

 Catholic agreed in condemning it as " an attempt to 

 dethrone God " ; as " a huge imposture," as " tend- 

 ing to produce disbelief of the Bible," and " to do 

 away with all idea of God," as " turning the Creator 

 out of doors." Such are fair samples to be culled 

 from the anthology of invective which was the staple 

 content of nearly every " criticism." Occasionally 

 some parody of reasoning appears when the " argu- 

 ment " is advanced that there is " a simpler explana- 

 tion of the presence of these strange forms among 

 the works of God in the fall of Adam," but even this 

 pseudo-concession to logic is rare; and one divine 

 had no hesitation in predicting the fate of Darwin 

 and his followers in the world to come. " If," said a 

 Dr. Duffield in the Princeton Review, " the de- 

 velopment theory of the origin of man shall, in a 

 little while, take the place as doubtless it will with 

 other exploded scientific speculations, then they who 

 accept it with its proper logical consequences will, 

 in the life to come, have their portion with those who 

 in this life ' know not God and obey not the Gospel 

 of His Son.' " But the most notable attack came 

 from Samuel Wilberforce, then Bishop of Oxford, in 

 the Quarterly Review of July, 1860. " It is," said 

 Huxley, in his review of Haeckel's Evolution of Man, 

 " a production which should be bound in good stout 

 calf, or better, asses' skin, by the curious book-col- 



