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remorse, treats his wives like slaves, 

 knows no decency, and is haunted by the 

 grossest superstitions." * 



But surely this reasoning partakes more 

 of the imaginative use of science than 

 "the scientific use of the imagination," 

 as the Times once remarked of Professor 

 TyndalPs address at Liverpool, for Darwin 

 frequently and his disciples invariably 

 are apt to forget that the real question to 

 be considered before all, is not so much 

 what fancy leads one to imagine in accord- 

 ance with the previous predisposition, as 

 " What is true?" though here I must not 

 forget that one of your learned professors 

 says on a subject on which he is so competent 

 to speak, on the possibility of " spontaneous 

 generation." In his celebrated address 

 as President of the British Association at 

 the Belfast meeting in 1874, after declaring 

 that he " discerns in MATTER the promise 

 and potency of all terrestial life," though 

 he is careful to deny the implication of 



* Descent of Man, ii. 404. 



