“Upton was a Scientist of the Scientists. One single exception and he would retract from his position. He sailed for the Amazon, interviewed the armadillo, but at the first pin he thrust into the fleshy portion of the animal’s steaks, a little below the armoured belt, it belied the false report by turning savagely round and biting off his head. His remains were reverently brought home to London. He lies in Westminster Abbey, the last and perhaps the greatest of martyrs to scientific truth.
“If Henry Upton’s immortal achievement seems for a moment to have broken down the very keystone in the arch of social progress, and to have made null the whole structure of biological truth; if it leaves Man no longer propped up by a knowledge of cousinship and brotherhood with the beasts of the field, but all alone, an exile upon earth, nevertheless we must take courage. The Bishop of Shoreham has told us (Etc., etc., etc.).”
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] Dollars, not pounds.
[2] He did.
[3] ... μέγα σθένος Ὠκεανοῖο
Ἄντυγα πὰρ πυμάτην σάκεος πύκα ποιητοῖο.
[Greek: ... mega sthenos Ôkeanoio
Antyga par pymatên sakeos pyka poiêtoio.]
[4] I refer to Mr. Bulge, and I refer to him both as an actor and as an author. Amen.