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points. It is a subject of congratulation and thankfulness that 
so many of the clergy have arrayed themselves under the 
banners of The Victoria Institute ; — thus to promote that 
■which has been said to be a peculiar advantage possessed alone 
by the Roman Catholic clergy, that “ the heresies of the day 
are explained to them by their professors of philosophy and 
science , and they are taught how these heresies are to he met .” * 
92. Professor Huxley desires to supplement the deficient 
instruction of the people by “ Sunday evening addresses upon 
l-theological subjects;” and would “like to see a scientific 
non- 
Sunday school in every parish, not for the purpose of superseding 
any existing means of teaching the people the things that are 
good for them , but side by side with them.” 
93. I do not at all intimate that Dr. Huxley would wish 
the people instructed either in Comtism or in Communism; 
but as the Professor holds a distinguished post in “ the Royal 
Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of 
Science,” and as the above idea of scientific instruction for the 
masses has taken deep hold in many quarters, I insist on the 
necessity that exists for first of all distinguishing between true 
and false science, and of exploding the false whilst we adhere to 
the true. 
94. Let any person of common sense decide, what would be 
the effect of teaching children, side by side, the origin of life as 
stated in the Book of Genesis ; and the notions of some men of 
science which we have been considering in this Paper. 
APPENDICES. 
(A.) 
(From the Edinburgh Review , April, 1873, p. 5.) 
« The practical influence of the new doctrine is seen in the rise and rapid 
growth of a pseudo-scientific sect— the sect of the Darwinian evolutionists. 
This sect is largely recruited from the crowd of facile minds ever ready to 
follow the newest fashion in art or science, in social or religious life, as 
accidents of association or influence may determine 
“ The evidence in favour of the central Darwinian doctrine is notoriously 
deficient, hut this is no hindrance to its enthusiastic acceptance. Ardent 
* Prof. Huxley’s Essay on Scientific Education, p. 62. 
