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work. And yet it is also true that, if all the conceptions 

 promulgated in the Origin of Species which are peculiarly 

 Darwinian were swept away, the theory of the evolution 

 of animals and plants would not be in the slightest 

 degree shaken. 



The strain of this single effort was considerable ; 

 "I am frightfully tired," he wrote on Ai^gust 11, " but 

 the game was worth the candle." 



Letters to Sir J. D. Hooker and to Professor Lewis 

 Campbell contain his own account of the affair. The 

 reference in the latter to the priests is in reply to 

 Professor Campbell's story of one of Jowett's last 

 sayings. They had been talking of the collective 

 power of the priesthood to resist the introduction 

 of new ideas ; a long pause ensued, and the old man 

 seemed to have slipped off into a doze, when he 

 suddenly broke the silence by saying, " The priests 

 will always be too many for you." 



The Spa, Titnbridge "Wells, 

 Aug. 12, 1894. 



My dear Hooker — I wish, as everybody wished, you 

 had been with us on Wednesday evening at Oxford when 

 we settled accounts for 1860, and got a receipt in full 

 from the Chancellor of the University, President of the 

 Association, and representative of ecclesiastical con- 

 servatism and orthodoxy. 



I was officially asked to second the vote of thanks for 

 the address, and got a copy of it the night before — luckily 

 — for it was a kittle business. . . . 



It was very queer to sit there and hear the doctrines 

 you and I were damned for advocating thirty-four years 

 ago at Oxford, enimciated as matters of course — disputed 



