l6o PIONEERS OF EVOLUTION. 



tic" was beaten. Cardinal Manning declared Daf- 

 winism to be a " brutal philosophy, to wit, there is 

 no God and the ape is our Adam." Protestant and 

 Catholic agreed in condemning it as " an attempt to 

 dethrone God " ; as " a huge imposture," as " tend- 

 ing to produce disbelief of the Bible," and " to do 

 away with all idea of God," as " turning the Creator 

 out of doors." Such are fair samples to be culled 

 from the anthology of invective which was the staple 

 content of nearly every " criticism." Occasionally 

 some parody of reasoning appears when the " argu- 

 ment " is advanced that there is " a simpler explana- 

 tion of the presence of these strange forms among 

 the works of God in the fall of Adam," but even this 

 pseudo-concession to logic is rare; and one divine 

 had no hesitation in predicting the fate of Darwin 

 and his followers in the world to come. " If," said a 

 Dr. Dufifield in the Princeton Review, " the de- 

 velopment theory of the origin of man shall, in a 

 little while, take the place — as doubtless it will — with 

 other exploded scientific speculations, then they who 

 accept it with its proper logical consequences will, 

 in the life to come, have their portion with those who 

 in this life ' know not God and obeyvnot the Gospel 

 of His Son.' " But the most notable attack came 

 from Samuel Wilberforce, then Bishop of Oxford, in 

 the Quarterly Review of July, i860. " It is," said 

 Huxley, in his review of Haeckel's Evolution of Man, 

 " a production which should be bound in good stout 

 calf, or better, asses' skin, by the curious book-col- 



