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ligence that there lurks the feeling, whenever some 

 old inscription or monument verifying statements 

 in the Bible is discovered, that the infallibility of that 

 book has further proof. For example, until the pres- 

 ent year, not a single confirmatory piece of evidence 

 as to the story of the Exodus was forthcoming from 

 Egypt itself. Even the inscription which has come 

 to light does not, in the judgment of such an expert 

 as Dr. Flinders Petrie, supply the exact confirmation 

 desired. But let that irrefragable witness appear, 

 and while the historian will welcome it as evidence 

 of the sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt, thus throw- 

 ing light on the movements of races, and adding 

 to the historical value of the Pentateuch; the aver- 

 age orthodox believer will feel a vague sort of satis- 

 faction that the foundations of his belief in the Trin- 

 ity and the Incarnation are somehow strengthened. 



3. Thomas Henry Huxley. 



Thomas Henry Huxley was born at Ealing, on 

 the 4th of May, 1825. Montaigne tells us that he 

 was " borne between eleven of the clock and noone," 

 and, with like quaint precision, Huxley gives the 

 hour of his birth as " about eight o'clock in the 

 morning." Speaking of his first Christian name, he 

 humorously said that, by curious chance, his parents 

 chose that of the particular apostle with whom, as 

 the doubting member of the twelve, he had always 

 felt most sympathy. 



Concerning his father, who was " one of the mas- 

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