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conducted in a spirit so earnest and reverential, and our 

 belief that such enquiries must tend to elicit truth, and 

 to foster a spirit of sound religion. 



Feeling as we do that the discoveries in science, 

 and the general progress of thought, have necessitated 

 some modification of the views generally held on theo- 

 logical matters, we welcome these attempts to establish 

 religious teaching on a firmer and broader foundation. 



While admitting that each writer in the Essays and 

 Reviews is responsible only for the opinions expressed 

 by himself, we address to you, as author of the first 

 article, this expression of our sympathy and our thanks. 



The address was very readily and numerously 

 signed by men of science and others, the signa- 

 tures including those of Charles Darwin, Charles 

 Lyell, Leonard Horner, George Bentham, Thos. 

 Graham ; Airy, the Astronomer - Royal ; and 

 Busk, President of the College of Surgeons. It 

 is interesting to note, at this critical juncture 

 in the relations between religion and science, the 

 rally of the men of science in support of the 

 more liberal theology which the growth of know- 

 ledge led reasonable men to adopt. 



In February 1863, for the first time, he gave 

 a Friday evening lecture at the Royal Institu- 

 tion. It was on the ancient Lake Habitations 

 of Switzerland, and is eulogistically described in 

 a letter from Professor Tyndall to Mrs. Lubbock. 



28th February 1863, 

 Royal Institution. 



My dear Mrs. Lubbock — No doubt you have been 

 already informed of the success of last night's lecture ; 

 but probably your husband will not tell how successful 

 it was. The style throughout was clear and straight- 

 forward, and the winding-up admirable. I could 

 number on my finger-ends the lectures which have been 

 equally successful during the ten years of my connection 



