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speech or doing violence to the voice of 

 conscience, we soil the two wings of our 

 soul, and fall back, through our own fault, 

 to the dreaded level of the Gorilla."* 



These are wise words, and in the above 

 quotations you will observe how justly Max 

 Miiller condemns the use of violent lan- 

 guage in controversy, and how carefully 

 he avoids committing such a fault himself. 

 It may be accepted as an infallible rule 

 that he who indulges in such a mode of 

 controversy is generally in the wrong. 

 And the intolerant dogmatism which some 

 of the disciples of Darwin have assumed, 

 in direct opposition to the practice and prin- 

 ciples of the master, may be judged from 

 the violent language employed by them 

 towards opponents who reject their wild 

 speculations about God and man. Professor 

 Haeckel divides mankind into two classes, 

 " the thoughtful and the thoughtless," 

 the former, who accept his doctrines ; the 

 latter who do not ; while he affirms that 



* Chips, iv., p. 472. 



