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agitated by the celebrated volume of Essays and 

 Reviews. Considering the moderate and reason- 

 able position taken up by the writers, and that 

 some of the statements most severely condemned 

 were thoroughly well-established scientific truths, 

 the excitement created by the book is an 

 extraordinary evidence how little the then leaders 

 of the theological world knew about the actual 

 world in which they lived. Two of the essayists 

 were suspended by the Court of Arches, but the 

 decision was reversed on appeal. Wilberforce, 

 who had stood as the champion of orthodoxy at 

 the meeting of the British Association against 

 Darwin and Huxley, wrote an article in the 

 Quarterly condemning the rationalistic views 

 advanced. 



One of the writers was Dr. Jowett, afterwards 

 Master of Balliol ; another, Dr. Temple, at that 

 time Head Master of Rugby, later Bishop of 

 London, and finally Archbishop of Canterbury ! 



The literary and scientific world of London 

 felt that the authors of the book were very 

 unfairly assailed, and a Committee of which 

 Mr. W. Spottiswoode and Mr. Lubbock were 

 secretaries drew up the following address to 

 Dr. Temple as author of the first Essay in the 

 volume. 



To the Rev. Dr. Temple 



We the undersigned have read with surprise and 

 regret a letter in which the Archbishop of Canterbury 

 and the other English Bishops have severely censured 

 the volume of Articles entitled Essays and Reviews. 



Without committing ourselves to the conclusions 

 arrived at in the various Essays, we wish to express our 

 sense of the value which is to be attached to enquiries 



