98 



tumbled into a bag, and then thrown back on the table in the 

 same order as they were." 



Others may do as they like, but, for myself, never again will 

 I purchase a copy of the so-called " Guardian " newspaper, never 

 send an advertisement to it, never write another line in it. 



I shall take good care to circulate this letter far and wide, and 

 let every one who writes in the " Guardian " have a copy 

 of it. 



The editor of the " Guardian " cannot uphold a falling cause, 

 that of the "ism" of Darwinism, the most egregious piece of 

 puerile folly of a " vain imagination " that has come to the 

 surface in our day. It is fast going down, as surely as the rising 

 horizon makes the sun set hi the evening. " But the counsel of 

 the LOED that shall stand ! " " The word of the LORD abideth 

 for ever." 



F. 0. MORRIS. 



" Nunburnholme Rectory, 

 " Hayton, York, 



" September 18, 1877." 



The public has learnt perhaps it is time they should that 

 " men of science" are not exempt as a body from the astounding 

 credulity which prevails in this country and in America. It is, 

 therefore, incumbent upon those who consider such credulity 

 deplorable to do all in their power to arrest its development." 

 DB. LANKESTEE. 



" From those representations of human nature which tend to 

 assimilate to each other the faculties of man and of the brutes, 

 the transition to atheism is not very wide." DuGALD STEWAET. 



" I had rather believe all the follies of the Talmud and the 

 Koran than that this universal frame is without a mind that au 

 army of infinite small portions, or seeds unplaced, should have 

 produced this order and beauty without a Divine Marshal." 

 LOED BACON 



