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we know one writer brings against him, 

 though we deem the charge doubtful, of 

 making " a declaration that a Unitarian 

 might endorse." 



Or when he speaks in such contemp- 

 tuous tones of the sudden conversion of 

 " a blackguard picked from the streets " 

 (p. 331), he has exposed himself to the just 

 retort of an able critic of his rash words 

 " This is monstrous. As to i blackguards 

 of the streets/ one might almost quote the 

 words of Christ, i The publicans and the 

 harlots go into the kingdom of heaven before 

 you ; ' and those other like words of His 

 inspired Apostle, ' Not many wise men after 

 the flesh are called.' 1 ' 



Let me, however, mention other in- 

 stances where the learned professor has 

 been evidently misunderstood, as, e.g. 



1. Those who are well read in the 

 scientific literature of the day, in reference 

 to what is termed " spontaneous genera- 

 tion," cannot but feel (as regards the 

 controversy which was carried on in the 

 Nineteenth Century, at the beginning of 



