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that his chief attacks were directed against Powell's ^ late 
Essay, from which he quoted passages as ' from an Oxford 
Divine ' that would astound Cambridge men, as no doubt 
they do. He showed how greedily (if I may so sjDeak) Powell 
has adopted all Darwin has suggested, and applied these 
suggestions (as if the whole were already proved) to his own 
views. 
I think I have given you a fair, though very hasty, view 
of what happened, and as I have just had a letter from Dar- 
win, and really have not a minute to spare for a reply this 
morning, perhaps you will send this to him, as he may hke 
to know, to some extent, what happened. 
To Henslow he replies : 
I expect there will be before long a great revulsion in 
favour of Darwin to match the senseless howl that is now 
raised, and that as many converts on no principle will fall 
in, as there are now antagonists on no principle. Owen has 
done himself great damage in the eyes of independent literary 
men (who do not care a rush for the Scientific aspect of the 
question) whether for the gratuitous attempt to insult me, 
or the utter baseness of his conduct to his pretended friend 
Darwin. 
And in June 1860 : 
I never see the Literary Gazette now, and am getting very 
. tired of Darwinian Eeviews ; there is wonderfully little to 
the purpose in any but Gray's ^ and Owen's,^ Huxley's * and 
Carpenter's.^ All the rest seem ignorant prejudice. I like 
a good hostile review even if the tone and spirit are as bad as 
Owen's ; but from all I hear, Phillips ^ at Oxford and Clark at 
Cambridge are mere twaddle, and the latter invective. All 
^ Dr. Baden Powell. 
2 Amer. Journ. of Science and Arts, April; reprinted in the Athenoium, 
August 4, 1860. 
3 To Owen was ascribed the review in the Edinburgh Review, April 1860, 
which also attacked Huxley and Hooker. Cp. M.L. i. 145, 149. 
* Westminster Review, April. 
^ National Revieiv, January, and 31 ed. Chirurg. Review, April 1860. 
^ John Phillips (1800-74) imbibed his love of geology from his uncle William 
Smith, with whom he worked. Later he was Professor of Geology successively 
at King's College, London (1834), and Dublin 1844, migrating to Oxford 1853, 
where he was also Curator of the Museum (1857). President of the Geological 
Society 1859-60; WoUaston medal 1845; F.R.S. 1834. 
