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upon the other side. L 
^ S g as they are stated hy 
Ti is bo question, then, .for a to 
which there need be any doubt. awar <led. The problem 
claim the victory, and to have it honestly award. ^ J ankin d. 
has but one solution, patent to he c ^ that the modern 
So much so, indeed, that 1 app . , j ss j n( , link between 
archeological pursuit after some for “civilized man a 
men and brutes, with the view «* regarded as the 
savage and pithecoid anees^, ^ 7.^ sc f ence or insane 
temporary aberration of a m naturally thinks all the 
philosophy, but which, of corn - > -J ot that it wants 
world mad, or blind and du , P -g ven Don Quixote did 
altogether some land of foundatio . t ravagance without 
not originate knight-errantry ; noi d hi instruction.” 
some kind of precedent He only bettered^ t trans _ 
And so do the modern Darwinians. ^ t ^ e Vestiges of 
mutation champions entered th ^ » „ and his theory of 
an unknown knight traversing > k e f ore the 
“evolution with design. There lants » upon his 
ancestral Darwin, with “the J an d tlJgoose’s 
banner; Lamarck with a duck .feet of a s S wan > s ; 
neck displayed, stretched out to the dimensions 
and the crack-brained Lord Monboddo ' "tm^^ Huxley 
monkeys rubbing off their tails, a ( ancestry. Their 
our own day) even proud of not 
theories and reasonings have pa A all over again, 
expect to have just the same aband °Xil to furbishing up 
without some formal alterations, in (} a thorne Hardv said 
the old weapons and armour. Dor as Mr. Qathome n - 
in the House of Commons last month : 
the House oi Lummuua 
“ Scientific men arise with fbut 
support them.”* 
* He adds: “Every man seems wanting ^ ts have antiquity on 
are those sound old foundations which a ; ^^j^ndom, against those 
their side, and have union with the who . t- upset everything 
men who would by their S ?:“J d iscovenes £ ^ way t0 check 
tWhavTtftell the Times of 24th May, 1870. 
