Bishop of Oxford in his emptiness. " I often had oc- LITTLE 

 casion on board the 'Beagle' to reprove Mr. Darwin JOURNEYS 

 for his disbelief in the First Chapter of Genesis," 

 solemnly said the Admiral. And Francis Darwin writes 

 it down without comment, probably to show how 

 much the Volunteer Naturalist was helped, aided and 

 inspired by the Captain of the Expedition. 

 But the reply of Huxley was a shot heard round the 

 world, and for the most part the echo was passed 

 along by the enemy. Huxley had insulted the Church, 

 they said, and the adherents of the Mosaic account 

 took the attitude of outraged and injured innocence. 

 Q As for himself, Darwin said nothing. He ceased to 

 attend the meetings of the scientific societies, for fear 

 that he would be drawn into debate, and while he felt 

 a sincere gratitude for Huxley's friendship, he depre- 

 cated the stern rebuke to the Bishop of Oxford. "It 

 will arouse the opposition to greater unreason," he 

 said & & 



And this was exactly what happened. Even the Eng- 

 lish Catholics took sides with Wilberforce the Protes- 

 tant, and Cardinal Manning organized a society " to 

 fight this new, so-called science that declares there is 

 no God and that Adam was an ape." 

 Even the Non-Conformists and Jews came in, and 

 there was the peculiar spectacle witnessed of the 

 Church of England, the Catholics, the Non-Conform- 

 ists and the Jews aroused and standing as one man, 

 against one quiet villager who remained at home and 

 said, " If my book cannot stand the bombardment, why 



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