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If any of you will study the original documents, you 

 will be satisfied. Read Hackel's attempted defence 

 of the Bathybius in a late number of the "American 

 Popular Science Monthly,'' in which he admits that 

 Huxley has changed his views, and that "from being 

 a biological celebrity, Bathybius has tumbled down 

 into the gloomy Hades of mythology." Even the 

 crudely Spencerian New York " Nation " does not 

 attempt to defend Bathybius. As to another point 

 of partisan criticism, let me say that one of the fore- 

 most literary gentlemen in New England has author- 

 ized me, in writing, to assert that he knows the 

 person who heard Thomas Carlyle make certain 

 famous remarks cited here as to Darwin. [Ap- 

 plause.] Too much has been said in the " Popular 

 Science Monthly " about the inaccuracy of the infor- 

 mation obtained by Boston concerning this piece of 

 literary history, but Boston and Ruskin happen to 

 agree as to these words of Carlyle. If I were at 

 'liberty to mention the name of the literary gentle- 

 man who authorized me in his letter thus to use 

 his knowledge, I should convince you at once that, 

 on this point, there has been here no speaking at 

 random. 



Support from partisan sources means nothing to 

 me ; and attack from partisan sources, almost noth- 

 ing. But when a man who has opposed all his life 

 propositions which are dear to me, a man like the 

 Plummcr Professor of Harvard University, comes 

 forward again and again, and indorses the general 

 discussion here ; when a man like the revered ex- 



