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himself and the cause he supports: "A 

 large number of naturalists admit that 

 species are the modified descendants of 

 other species; and this especially holds 

 good with the younger and rising natu- 

 lists. The greater number accept the 

 agency of Natural Selection ; though some 

 urge, whether with justice the future must 

 decide, that I have greatly overrated its 

 importance. Of the older and honoured chiefs 

 in Natural Science, many, unfortunately, are 

 still opposed to evolution in every form."* 

 If he had said " all," in place of " many," 

 I think Darwin would have been nearer 

 the mark so far as regards belief in the 

 chimera that man has been evolved from 

 a tadpole. I shall shew you before I 

 close my address, that almost all the 

 greatest names of the 19th century reject 

 the full bearing of his Evolution theory. 

 Professor Tyndall, the most distinguished 

 of his disciples, admits that it must inevi- 



* Descent of Man, i., pp. 1, 2. It is satisfactory 

 to note the signs which show that the theory of 

 Natural Selection is beginning to break down. 



