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expressed in terms unnecessarily strong 

 for the occasion, are very valuable as 

 showing what a learned Naturalist of the 

 19th century thought of Darwinism and 

 its numerous disciples. He thus delivers 

 his testimony : 



"In one of Miss Edgeworth's tales she 

 describes the ' ineffable contempt and 

 indignation' with which Sir Plantagenet 

 Mowbray received the proposition of 

 Marvel, the Lincolnshire farmer, to pur- 

 chase his heronry near Spalding. ' In- 

 effable contempt and indignation ' is the 

 only feeling which any one of common 

 sense and of a right mind must feel at the 

 astounding puerilities of Darwinism, its 

 ten thousand times worse than childish 

 absurdities, contempt for them in them- 

 selves, and indignation at the criminal 

 injury which the miserable infidelity of 

 the wretched system has done to the minds 

 of too many." 



Lamenting the unseemly strength of 

 Mr. Morris' language, it nevertheless 

 faithfully exhibits the feelings which the 



