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winian than Mr. Wallace, for he has faith in 

 the power of natural selection. But he is more 

 of an evolutionist than Mr. Wallace, because 

 Mr. Wallace thinks it necessary to call in an 

 intelligent agent, a sort of supernatural Sir 

 John Sebright, to produce even the animal 

 frame of man ; while Mr. Mivart requires no 

 Divine assistance till he comes to man's soul." * 



1 Contemporary Review, vol. xviii. 1871, p. 444. In this same 

 article Mr. Huxley says : " Elijah's great question, Will ye serve 

 God or Baal ? Choose ye, is uttered audibly enough in the ears of 

 every one of us as we come to manhood. Let every man who tries 

 to answer it seriously ask himself whether he can be satisfied with 

 the Baal of authority, and with all the good things his worship- 

 pers are promised in this world and the next. If he can, let him, 

 if he be so inclined, amuse himself with such scientific imple- 

 ments as authority tells him are safe and will not cut his fingers ;' 

 but let him not imagine that he is, or can be, both a true son of 

 the Church and a loyal soldier of science." " And, on the other 

 hand, if the blind acceptance of authority appear to him in its 

 true colors, as mere private judgment in excelsis, and if he have 

 courage to stand alone face to face with the abyss of the Eternal 

 and Unknowable, let him be content, once for all, not only to 

 renounce the good things promised by 'Infallibility,' but even 

 to bear the bad things which it prophesies ; content to follow 

 reason and fact in singleness and honesty of purpose, wherever 

 they may lead, in the sure faith that a hell of honest men will 

 to him be more endurable than a paradise full of angelic shams." 

 There can be no doubt that the Apostle Paul believed in the 

 infallibility of the Scriptures. Imagine Professor Huxley calling 

 St. Paul to his face, a sham ! What are all the Huxleys who 

 have ever lived or ever can live, to that one Paul in power for 

 good over human thought, character, and destiny 1 



