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* nurse ' can develop within itself the very unlike 

 Cercaria, it will not appear impossible that the egg, or 

 ciliated embryo, of a spunge for once, under special 

 conditions, might become a hydroid polype, or the 

 embryo of a Medusa, an Echinoderm" !!! Professor 

 Huxley, in hisZy Sermons, p. 341, opposes this view. 



APPENDIX E, PAGE 53. 



Origin of Species, p. 186. The late Lord Chancellor 

 Hatherly, in a letter to the author of All the Articles 

 of the Darwinian Faith, says 



" I believe your mode of treating the preposterous 

 fictions of Darwin is the only way to shake the self- 

 confident tone of would-be philosophers. Newton's 

 grandest saying, after 'Deus non est JEternitas sed 

 ^Eternus,' was ' Hypotheses non fingo.' Newton kept 

 back his Principia for years, because a mistake had 

 been made in an arc of the meridian, so closely did he 

 keep to experimental truth. Now the crude fancy, no- 

 thing like so ingenious as the Ptolemaic cycles, because 

 the Darwin fancy stumbles at every step, is exalted 

 to a rank exceeding that of the discovery of gravi- 

 tation. In a clever sermon by Pritchard, Savilian 

 Professor at Oxford, preached before the British 

 Association, he exposes the folly of this stuff, and 

 proves that the chances against the eye being formed 

 by development are more in number than Darwin's 

 work being taken by the printer to pieces and tumbled 

 into a bag, and then thrown back on the table in the 

 same order that they came." 



