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upon her when assaulted by devils, be 

 delivered from them " ! ! ! 



Professor Huxley's theory of the doc- 

 trine of Transubstantiation, or, as he words 

 it, of " sheep being transubstantiated into 

 man," may remind you of what one of 

 your own poets, William Shakespeare, 

 of Stratford-upon-Avon, as some thought, 

 or to speak more correctly, what the 

 illustrious author of Hamlet wrote on 

 the same subject. " Your worm * is your 

 only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures 

 else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for 

 maggots : your fat king and your lean 

 beggar is but variable service, two dishes 

 to one table ; that's the end. A man may 

 eat fish with the worm that hath eaten of 

 a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of 

 that worm." f 



There appears, however, to have been 

 considerable difference between the teach- 

 ing of Darwin and that of his chief 



* See Appendix Q. 



f Hamlet, act iv., scene 3, 1. 22. 



