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which he occasionally employed against 

 the ministers of religion, when it was 

 evident that he had got out of his depth, 

 I would invite your attention to three 

 branches of the Darwinian theory with 

 which the name of Professor Huxley was 

 more or less identified, which may be 

 enumerated as follows : 



1. Concerning the Origin of Species. 



2. Concerning the Antiquity of Man. 



3. Concerning the Unity of Race. 



I must begin by warning you that this 

 learned professor went far ahead of the 

 illustrious Darwin in his range of free 

 thought; as we may judge from the 

 answer which he once gave to Professor 

 Mivart in reply to his very natural remark 

 that " without a belief in a personal God 

 there was no religion worthy of the 

 name:" to which Huxley thus replied 

 " This is a matter of opinion. But it may 

 be asserted, with less reason to fear contra- 

 diction (?), that the worship of a personal 

 God, who, on Mr. Mivart's hypothesis, 



