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declared, ' Knowledge is power,' but also 

 defined that knowledge, which meant, 

 not speculative, nor unproved theories, 

 but what was objective and actual and 

 true." 



You have thus the testimony of twenty 

 learned PEOFESSORS of the 19th century 

 respecting the Evolution theory ; and you 

 will have seen how every one of them 

 (save Professor Tyndall, who rightly 

 judged that it would be modified by time) 

 condemned it with more or less vigour; 

 and you who live in these more enligh- 

 tened days, will naturally wonder how 

 such an " unverified theoretic conception" 

 could have bewitched the minds of any 

 but those who allow imagination to get 

 the better of their reason. 



I might add to the above catena an 

 infinite number of other celebrities of the 

 same age, such as Murchison, Lyell, 

 Humboldt, Principal Dawson, Joachim, 

 Barrante, Dugald Stewart, Dr. Hunt of 

 the Anthropological Society, Carlyle, the 

 great statesmen of the 19th century, 



