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heathen testimony, affirmed that as St. Paul stated 

 that " Q-od hath made of one blood all nations of 

 men to dwell on all the face of the earth " (Acts 

 xviii. 26), it clearly followed that men do not live on 

 more faces than one, or upon the back! Hence, 

 argues Cosmas, " with such a passage before his 

 eyes, no Christian should ever dare to think or speak 

 of the Antipodes.' 1 



This curious work of Cosmas was published in the 

 second volume of the Benedictine Edition of the 

 Greek Fathers, Paris, 1706. And, strange to say, 

 the arguments of Cosmas seen to have been adopted 

 by a very wild writer of the 19th century, who bears 

 one of the most illustrious names in English history, 

 and who has got into many troubles by the violence 

 of his language against those who believe in the 

 Copernican system in general, and Newton's theory 

 of gravitation in particular. He once wrote to ask 

 me if I had any belief in that old scoundrel and 

 rogue Sir Isaac Newton ? ! ! ! the latter being, as is 

 well known, one of the greatest and meekest among 

 the sons of men. 



I fear I have unintentionally done Professor 

 Huxley some wrong, as since writing what I have 

 said about his Address to the Clergy of Sion College, 

 I have met with .a work entitled, Remarks on 

 Mosaic Cosmogony, by B. W. Newton, in which 

 the learned author (who was formerly an Oxford 

 Fellow, and is now a minister of Christ, I believe, 

 though not a clergyman of the Church of England) 

 has proposed a new " Article of Faith " for general 

 believers, part of which reads as follows: "We 

 believe and confess that Gk)d did, in six literal days, 



