THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 135 
lished in England, pays the following tribute to their memory, 
in placing before its readers an account of the Prince unveiling 
one of the statues at South Kensington: 
“The name of Darwin is the greatest in the world of 
science since Newton, not by reason of exceptional genius, but 
because of the revolution, moral, intellectual and religious 
with which his name must be for ever associated. Yet much 
that was done under Darwin’s name was effected by the un- 
rivalled ability of Professor Huxley, who, whether expounding 
his own views or those of another, had no equal for the amaz- 
ing lucidity of his demonstration, combined with a literary 
style, as incisive as it was strenuous.” lew men entered the 
lists against him but lived to repent their rashness. How many 
are there in Toronto to-day who have read Darwin’s doctrine 
ot Evolution, asks a writer in the Mail and Empire, probably 
not two per cent. Your correspondent is a type of a class 
groping blindly through the world under the mind-warping in- 
fluences of old theological doctrines. | Why need we feel sur- 
prised to learn that the editor of an Ontario daily, it is said, 
spends his few spare hours in manufacturing a flattened world 
to mark off the exact pesition of the four corners of the earth. 
Blind faith, after all, is but a poor substitute for reason. 
In one of the first papers the writer read to the Geological 
Section of the Hamilton Scientific Association (it was not pub- 
lished in the proceedings), he pointed out that the story of the 
deluge, recorded in the authorized version of the Hebrew Bible 
was evidently borrowed from the Chaldean myth of “The 
Deluge.” Since then some at least of the churches have seen 
the utter impossibility of constructing a vessel at such an early 
period capable of transporting the animals stated for such a 
period, together with the required provisions. The utter ab- 
surdity of the Moas of New Zealand (20 species, according to 
Dr. Lucas, Grimsby) finding their way there from where the 
ark rested on Ararat (it is said one of these gigantic birds 
ndust have been 16 feet high), must strike any one not alto- 
gether. devoid of reason. “Who believes in the universal 
deluge row?” asked Huxley. ‘The most narrow-minded of 
