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man from the same stock as the apes." But there 

 were shouts of dissent outside the lecture hall. The 

 local press was furious at the reception accorded to 

 that " anti-scriptural and most debasing theory, . . . 

 standing in blasphemous contradiction to Biblical nar- 

 rative and doctrine." There should have been deep 

 resentment at this " foul outrage committed upon 

 them individually and upon the whole species as 

 ' made in the likeness of God,' by deserting the hall 

 in a body, or using some more emphatic form of 

 protest against the corruption of youth by the vilest 

 and beastliest paradox ever vented in ancient or 

 modern times amongst Pagans or Christians." 1 Thus 

 wrote the Witness, invective, as usual, doing duty for 

 argument; while the Scotsman, as Huxley told Dar- 

 win, was " more scurrilously personal, and more 

 foolish." 



The two sets of lectures formed the basis of Evi- 

 dence as to Man's Place in Nature, published in 1863. 

 The third section of the book dealt with the question 

 of fossil human remains, concerning which Lyell had 

 asked for information when preparing his Antiquity of 

 Man. Well anathematised by the reviewers, the 

 u old stupid Athenceum" as Darwin called it, telling 

 its readers that "Lyell's object is to make man old, 

 Huxley's to degrade him," the book had an imme- 



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