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man, with a tender feeling towards those 

 who dissented from his views, which can- 

 not be said with truth of many of his dis- 

 ciples, who endeavour to trade on his 

 honoured name. And in order that I may 

 do him full justice, I propose to quote some 

 extracts from his chief works before pro- 

 ceeding to comment on his opinions, and 

 to show you clearly wherein their error 

 lays. 



Under the high-sounding names of 

 Natural Selection Development Evolu- 

 tion Transmutation Pangenesis Bio- 

 genesis Abiogenesis Agamogenesis * 

 Osmosis Protoplasm Physical Basis of 

 Life, and others of a still wilder nomen- 

 clature, which appear to have been in- 

 vented, as Curran humorously said of the 

 Eound Towers in Ireland, more for the 

 purpose " of puzzling posterity" than any 

 thing else, some of your Scientists have 

 succeeded in bewitching a large number 

 of the unlearned world in general, together 



* See Appendix D. 



