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in Macmillan's, " every one was eager to congratulate 

 the hero of the day. I remember that some naive 

 person wished ' it could come over again ' ; Mr. 

 Huxley, with the look on his face of the victor who 

 feels the cost of victory, put us aside saying, 

 ' Once in a lifetime is enough, if not too much.' " 



In a letter to me the same writer remarks 



I gathered from Mr. Huxley's look when I spoke to 

 him at Dr. Daubeny's that he was not quite satisfied to 

 have been forced to take so personal a tone it a little 

 jarred upon his fine taste. But it was the Bishop who 

 first struck the insolent note of personal attack. 



Again, with reference to the state of feeling at the 

 meeting : 



I never saw such a display of fierce party spirit, the 

 looks of bitter hatred which the audience bestowed (I 

 mean the majority) on us who were on your father's side ; 

 as we passed through the crowd we felt that we were 

 expected to say " how abominably the Bishop was treated " 

 or to be considered outcasts and detestable. 



It was very different, however, at Dr. Daubeny's, 

 " where," says the writer of the account in Darwin's 

 Life, "the almost sole topic was the battle of the 

 ' Origin,' and I was much struck with the fair and 

 unprejudiced way in which the black coats and white 

 cravats of Oxford discussed the question, and the 

 frankness with which they offered their congratula- 

 tions to the winners in the combat." 



The result of this encounter, though a check to 

 the other side, cannot, of course, be represented as 



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