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barks.' We looked — ' Oxford and British Association are 

 not Twaddletown ! ' At last he accepted our polite offer 

 of a chair, and fumed to himself; while the President called 

 on Professor Huxley. He merely said that the cause had 

 not suffered much from previous speakers, and he would 

 reply when there were some arguments to meet. [Then rose 

 Dr. Wilberforce], Bishop of Oxford. (Immense applause. 

 The parsonic element had gathered strong for their Goliath. 

 I had not seen him since the Cambridge meeting [pp. 75, 76], 

 and on a close view was greatly pained at the change.) "... 

 Professor Huxley in his reply, referring to a taunt of the 

 Bishop's, "gave us to understand that, if he had to choose 

 ancestry between a respectable chimpanzee and a man of 

 the greatest intellectual powers, who yet narrowed himself 

 down to prejudice, sarcasm, etc., he would greatly prefer 

 the grand- paternal ape. (Time was, when a man might have 

 been burnt at Oxford for such impertinence. A fine monument 

 stands over the Martyrs' Stake. The English people have left 

 off burning. There were three native-born Americans burnt, 

 to my certain knowledge, the short time I was in the States.) 



" . . . On Sunday morning, I went to St. Mary's to hear 

 the University Sermon. The service was read, without com- 

 munion, and all the people were so zealous with responses, very 

 loud, that their voices ran about on each other's heels. ... I 

 like united worship : I don't like the plan, so common over the 

 water, of looking on, while the parson tells the Lord a great 

 many things. But I think music the natural language of united 

 worship. Hence, in our school-service at Warrington, we 

 adopt the cathedral custom of kneeling down and chanting 

 our litany." The sermon was by Dr. Temple : his remark 

 that science is in great danger of " making God a system of 

 laws, without any kind of answer to our human affections," led 

 Philip to write : " As for me, I used to have a great horror of 

 anthropomorphism and patripassion ; but now the actual neces- 

 sities of my spiritual wants have driven me out of it, in spite 

 of my logic : and whether the prayer be offered in name to 

 Father, Son, or Holy Spirit, it is the Lord Jesus Christ, in his 



