All the Articles of the Darwin Faith. 43 



" Darwin's speculation 

 Is of another sort ; 



Tis one which demonstration 

 In nowise doth support. 



Time, theory's dispeller, 

 Will out of mind remove it : 



We say, as said old Weller, 

 " Prove it." And he can't prove it." 



Punch. 



The following- is Dr. Carpenter's opinion, the President 

 of the British Association. 



" There is a great deal of what I cannot but regard as 

 fallacious and misleading philosophy ' oppositions of 

 science falsely so called' abroad in the world at the 

 present time. And I hope to satisfy you that those who 

 set up their own conceptions of the orderly sequence which 

 they discern in the phenomena of nature, as fixed and 

 determinate laws by which those phenomena not only are 

 within all human experience, but always have been, and 

 always must be, invariably governed, are really guilty of 

 the intellectual arrogance they condemn in the systems of 

 the ancients, and place themselves in diametrical antago- 



