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you. These doctrines are held by the 

 best of men ; they are held out of no 

 wantonness, or irreverence, or eccentricity. 

 They are held by men who seek to 

 discover to themselves and to present to 

 others Scientific Truth. I ask you to 

 remember this, to consider this ; and then 

 I ask you to judge us" * 



Bearing in mind the important dis- 

 tinction between the teaching of Darwin, 

 who believes in a Supreme Creator, who 

 first gave life to those who had it not ; 

 and the teaching of men like Haeckel, or 

 Biichner, or Carl Vogt, who distinctly 

 deny the existence of such a Being, we 

 regret to be compelled to observe, that 

 those of the clergy who have studied 

 both sides of the question differ as much 

 from Huxley respecting what is " Scien- 

 tific Truth," as they do on the rightful 

 interpretation of the doctrines of the 

 Bible. He is evidently unable to see 

 what is so evident to unprejudiced 



* Transactions of Victoria Inst. y vol. ii., p. 329. 



