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together with his article upon " Cause and Effect," 

 won for Dr. Brown the professorship of Moral Phi- 

 losophy in the University. We see, therefore, that 

 in England, as we shall see in France, the adherents 

 of the Evolution doctrine found the spirit of the 

 Universities hostile; and as we pass from man to 

 man in these outlines of the Evolution idea, select- 

 ing certain paragraphs and ignoring all the contem- 

 porary literature, we must not lose sight of the fact 

 that the major weight of opinion was, throughout 

 all this period, upon the side of Special Creation. 

 For one argument like Dr. Darwin's upon the 

 gradual development side, there were hundreds 

 upon the side of sudden production. 



