%* '! have received your valuable exposure of Darwinism, and most 

 heartily thank you for it. I believe that your mode of treating the 

 preposterous fictions of Darwin is the only way to shake the self-confident 

 tone of would-be philosophers. Newton's grandest saying, after ' Deu* 

 nfn est jEternitas sed JEternus] was ' Hypotheses nanfinyo? Newton kept 

 back his ' Principia' for years, because a mistake had been made in an arc 

 of the meridian, so closely did he keep to experimental truth. Now, the 

 crude fancy, nothing like so ingenious as the Ptolemaic cycles, because 

 really the Darwin fancy stumbles at every step, is exalted to a rank 

 exceeding that of the discovery of gravitation. In a clever sermon by 

 Pritchard, now Savilian Professor at Oxford, and formerly President of 

 the Royal Astronomical Society, preached before the British Association 

 when Grove presided, he exposes the folly of this stuff, and in his appendix 

 to a print of it proves that the chances against the eye being formed by 

 developement are more in number than Darwin's work being taken by the 

 printer to pieces and tumbled into a bag, and then thrown back on the 

 table in the same order that they came." Lord Ilatherley, Lord Cltancellor 

 of England, in a letter to the Author. 



ALL THE 

 AKTICLES OF THE DAEWIN FAITH. 



CEEDO QUIA IMPOSSIBILE EST. 



I BELIEVE that we are the people, and that wisdom shall die 

 with us. 



I believe, I am ready to believe, anything like the Infidel of 

 old provided only it is not in the Bible. 



I believe that my theory of Natural Selection is right, and that 

 every one who does not hold it is in the wrong, although the 

 difficulties " are so grave, that to this day I can never reflect on 

 them without being staggered." 



I believe that man, and all the animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, 

 and insects in the world have descended from one single original, 

 and not any of these from ancestors of their own kinds ; that the 

 gnat and the elephant, the cat and the mouse, the bat and the 



