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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 

 Pluinmer Professor of Harvard University, conies 

 forward again and again, and indorses the general 

 discussion here; when a man like the revered ex- 





