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Mr. Reddie. I have hut very 
have been made upon my paper^ ^ ® tion of the observations of Mr. 
criticised more thoroughly. th discovery of fire, no attempt 
Warington, as to the traditions relating to the dxseovery^o ^ ^ ^ 
has been made to controvert any on first S p i ace , I am most anxious 
however, to give a few explana ions. Gladstone appears to entertain 
to remove the impression which my friend Dr. <»ne app 
are necessarily irreligious 
Rev. Dr. InoNS.-But they are so. (Hear hear.) to lain , 
Mr. Rebdie- W ell ; perhaps I may think so too , ; b ^ ^ ^ 
as a matter of fact, that, whatever may ^ theory” to that which 
any such impression, by app ying e . , the way in which I have spoken 
I adopted. I think I might further had no such 
in detail of the other theories as ap ™ f that 1 ^ ^ ^ ^ 
intention. I may observe, besides that U ^ ^ ^ in one of the 
himseM unquestionably : Anthropological Society, to which I have 
discussions which took pla against the arguments 
referred in my paper, I actually appealed to « : ^ ^ ^ 
of several gentlemen who had adopted his theo^ ^ ^ tQ them 
what would generally be calle | beginning for his system, to 
speak of “ the breathing J others> * An d, in truth, they did not 
from which his theory derives ' wou ld themselves repudiate 
like it. And I believe that most D “™ s ™ which Dr . G i ad stone 
the notion that ^ the prese „t day in speaking of 
^tL Lch rel^ H you 
advocate what I have now reli „ io n re liaion and miraculous creation 
genous theory, and say noting ; er i e nced.°W)iile here, I am now called 
are thrown in yow tetinjh lb ^ from Adam and Eve 
to account, when I call the tne y which I thought every one would 
as the Scriptures teach, plain y y i s 5 I have said and merely as 
understand. I certainly did so most innocently “ q^ion has been 
the best descriptive term I could think of. But 
raised, I would ask Dr. Gladstone, as one ^eTtheTact, that one at 
Institution of Great Britain, we er e f Darwinism, Professoi 
least of the best-known and most zealous ad ;7^ ti ^ tinc ^ adop t s 
Huxley, Who f 51 account for man, 
“ri" (- id in our Chairman’s Inaugural Address) gets rid o 
* Anthrop. Rev., vol. II. P* cxxxiv. 
