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to contend with more fully than they did, a pin 

 could have been heard to drop. At the end of the 

 lecture, amid the enthusiastic applause of the crowd, 

 he made his way to the front of the box where his 

 hosts and their party were, and received their warm 

 congratulations. But he missed one voice amongst 

 them, and turning to where his wife sat in silent 

 triumph almost beyond speech, he said, "And have 

 you no word for me?" then, himself also deeply 

 moved, stooped down and kissed her. 



This address was delivered on Tuesday, September 

 12. On the 14th he went to Philadelphia, and on 

 the 15th to New York, where he delivered his three 

 lectures on Evolution on Monday, Wednesday, and 

 Friday, September 18, 20, and 22. 



These lectures are very good examples of the skill 

 with which he could present a complicated subject in 

 a simple form, the subject seeming to unroll itself by 

 the force of its own naked logic, and carrying con- 

 viction the further through the simplicity of its 

 presentation. Indeed, an unfriendly critic once paid 

 him an unintended compliment, when trying to make 

 out that he was no great speaker; that all he did 

 was to set some interesting theory unadorned before 

 his audience, when such success as he attained was 

 due to the compelling nature of the subject itself. 



Since his earlier lectures to the public on evolution, 

 the paleontological evidences had been accumulating ; 

 the case could be stated without some of the reserva- 

 tions of former days; and he brings forward two 



