LITTLE Fiske has been called the Huxley of America; but 

 JOURNEYS Fiske was like Agassiz in this, he never had the felic- 

 ity to achieve the ill-will of the many. 

 Fiske has also been called the Drummond of America, 

 but Fiske was really a Henry Drummond and a Louis 

 Agassiz rolled into one, the mass well seasoned with 

 essence of Huxley. 



John Fiske made the science of Darwin and Wallace 

 palatable to orthodox theology, and it is to the earn- 

 est and eloquent words of Fiske that we owe it 

 that Evolution is taught everywhere in the public 

 schools and even in the sectarian colleges of America 

 to-day. 



The almost universal opposition to Darwin's book 

 arose from the idea that its acceptance would destroy 

 the Christian religion. 



This was the plaintive plea put forth when Newton 

 advanced his discovery of the Law of Gravitation, and 

 also when Copernicus proclaimed the movements of 

 the earth, these things were contrary to the Bible ! 

 Copernicus was a loyal Catholic; Sir Isaac Newton 

 was a staunch Churchman, but both kept their religion 

 in water-tight compartments, so that it never got 

 mixed with their science. Gladstone never allowed his 

 religion to tint his statesmanship, and we all know 

 business men who follow the double-entry scheme. 

 That French toast, "Here's to our wives and sweet- 

 hearts may they never meet!" would suit, most 

 lawyers just as well if expressed this way, " Here's 

 to our religion and our business God knows they 

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