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SCIENCE AND PSEUDO-SCIENCE 



[1887] 



IN the opening sentences of a contribution to the 

 last number of this Keview, l the Duke of Argyll 

 has favoured me with a lecture on the proprieties 

 of controversy, to which I should be disposed to 

 listen with more docility if his Grace's precepts 

 appeared to me to be based upon rational principles, 

 or if his example were more exemplary. 



With respect to the latter point, the Duke has 

 thought fit to entitle his article " Professor Huxley 

 on Canon Liddon," and thus forces into prominence 

 an element of personality, which those who read 

 the paper which is the object of the Duke's 

 animadversions will observe I have endeavoured, 

 most carefully, to avoid. My criticisms dealt with 

 a report of a sermon, published in a newspaper, 

 and thereby addressed to all the world. Whether 

 that sermon was preached by A or B was not a 



1 Nineteenth Century ', March 1887. 



