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since it has relieved me from the necessity of 

 dealing with the greater part of Dr. Wace's 

 polemic, and enables me to devote more space to 

 the really important issues which have been 

 raised. 1 



Perhaps, however, it may be well for me to 

 observe that approbation of the manner in which 

 a great biblical scholar, for instance, Keuss, does 

 his work does not commit me to the adoption of 

 all, or indeed any of his views ; and, further, that 

 the disagreements of a series of investigators do 

 not in any way interfere with the fact that each 

 of them has made important contributions to the 

 body of truth ultimately established. If I cite 

 Buffon, Linnaeus, Lamarck, and Cuvier, as having 

 each and all taken a leading share in building up 

 modern biology, the statement that ev^ ry one of 

 these great naturalists disagreed with, and even 

 more or less contradicted, all the rest is quite 

 true ; but the supposition that the latter assertion 

 is in any way inconsistent with the former, would 

 betray a strange ignorance of the manner in which 

 all true science advances. 



Dr. Wace takes a great deal of trouble to make 

 it appear that I have desired to evade the real 

 questions raised by his attack upon me at the 



1 I may perhaps return to the question of the authorship of 

 the Gospels. For the present I must content myself vvith 

 warning my readers against any reliance upon Dr. Wace's state- 

 ments as to the results arrived at by modern criticism. They 

 are as gravely as surprisingly erroneous. 



