IV 



THE INTERPRETERS OF GENESIS AND 

 THE INTERPRETERS OF NATURE 



[1885] 



OUR fabulist warns " those who in quarrels inter- 

 pose " of the fate which is probably in store for 

 them ; and, in venturing to place myself between 

 so powerful a controversialist as Mr. Gladstone 

 and the eminent divine whom he assaults with 

 such vigour in the last number of this Review, 1 I 

 am fully aware that I run great danger of verifying 

 Gay's prediction. Moreover, it is quite possible 

 that my zeal in offering aid to a combatant so 

 extremely well able to take care of himself as M. 

 Reville may be thought to savour of indiscretion. 

 Two considerations, however, have led me to 

 face the double risk. The one is that though, in 

 my judgment, M. Reville is wholly in the right in 

 that part of the controversy to which I propose 

 to restrict my observations, nevertheless he, as a 



1 The Nineteenth Century. 



