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CHAPTER V. 



THE GENETIC AND DOGMATIC METHODS OF TEACHING. 



THE very justifiable surprise which Virchow's Munich 

 address has excited in many circles is due only in part 

 to his opposition to the theory of descent ; for the rest, 

 and in much greater part, it is due to the astounding 

 arguments which he has connected with it, particularly 

 as to freedom for instruction. These arguments so 

 closely resemble those of the Jesuits that they might 

 have been inspired direct from the Vatican, or, which 

 is the same thing, the notorious " court-chaplain 

 party" in Berlin. No wonder, then, that these 

 propositions, which would undermine the whole liberty 

 of science, have met with the loudest approbation from 

 the " Germania," the " New Evangelical Church Times " 

 ("Neue Evangelischen Kirchenzeitung "), and other 

 leading, equivocating organs of the Church militant. 

 On the other hand, these odious principles are 

 already so extensively discussed, and have been so 

 clearly laid down in all their indefensibility, that I 

 may here deal with them briefly, 



