394. ON SPECIES AND RACES, AND THEIR ORIGIN 
ledge ; that free discussion is the life of truth, and of true unity in a 
nation. 
“Will England play this part? That depends upon how you, the 
public, deal with science. Cherish her, venerate her, follow her 
methods faithfully and implicitly in their application to all branches 
of human thought ; and the future of this people will be greater than 
the past. 
“Listen to those who would silence and crush her, and I fear our 
children will see the glory of England vanishing like Arthur in the 
mist ; they will cry too late the woful cry of Guinever : 
“It was my duty to have loved the highest 
It surely was my profit, had I known ; 
It would have been my pleasure had I seen,” 
