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differences, as compared with the brain of man, than 

 it did when compared with the brains of the very 

 lowest and most problematical of the Quadrumana." 

 To this Huxley, in polite English, gave the lie direct, 

 and pledged himself to "justify that unusual pro- 

 cedure elsewhere." l Two days after, by mere 

 chance, he was present at the reading of a paper by 

 Dr. Draper On the Intellectual Development of Europe 

 considered with reference to the views of Mr. Darwin. 

 In the discussion which followed, Bishop Wilber- 

 force, throwing a glance at Huxley, ended a suave 

 and superficial speech by asking him " as to his belief 

 in being descended from an ape. Is it on his grand- 

 father's or his grandmother's side that the ape an- 

 cestry comes in ? " Huxley did not rise till the 

 meeting called for him ; then he let himself go. 2 

 " The Lord hath delivered him into mine hands," he 

 said in undertone to Sir Benjamin Brodie. After 

 showing how ill-equipped was the Bishop for con- 

 troversy upon the general question of organic evolu- 

 tion, although it was an open secret that Owen had 

 primed him for the contest, Huxley said : " You say 

 that development drives out the Creator, but you 

 assert that God made you ; and yet you know that 

 you yourself were originally a little piece of matter, 



1 Man's Place in Nature, p. 114 (1863 edition). 



2 Letter to F. Darwin, i. p. 187. 



