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Darwin has been able to point out in species, and especially 

 in man, within the same limits of time are either zero or of 

 an extremely nebulous character. 



I remain. Sir, yours faithfully, 

 April 10. ASTRONOMICUS. 



Thus much from the Times, now from the Globe, 



" The other point to note is Professor Huxley's speech. 

 The learned gentleman is not only abandoning- himself to a 

 bad habit of mischievous talking ; he is becoming inane. 

 What did he mean by entertaining a company like that 

 assembled around the board of the Royal Academy with a 

 wretched rechauffe of the old story that man is a cooking 

 animal, with the obvious variation d propos of the occasion 

 that he is distinguished by the power to ' draw ' ! Pro- 

 fessor Huxley must either be running rapidly to seed 





 himself, or he has a very low opinion of his contemporaries 



when he expects them to be amused even after dinner 

 with such feeble wit." Globe, May 1st, 1871. 



" On Geology and Darwinism " Dagentree " holds 

 decided opinions. He regards the former as a science so 

 completely in its infancy that to attempt to reconstruct our 

 theology in reference to it is simply absurd : " Late 



