[36] Life and Letters, Vol. I, p. 168 (vide Judd, Coming of Evolution, p. 89).
[37] As a matter of fact, biologists soon demanded more than even Lyell's geology could give them. Recent discoveries about the nature of matter have, however, further extended the possible age of our planet.
[38] Darwin, Life, Vol. I, p. 93.
[39] "If we wish to fix a definite point to describe as the end of the idealistic period in Germany, no such distinctive event offers itself as the French Revolution of July, 1830" (Lange, History of Materialism, E.T., Vol. II, p. 245).
[40] A famous book which, though negative in its conclusions, places its author alongside Schleiermacher as one of the founders of the modern science of Religious Psychology.
[41] Balfour, Theism and Humanism, p. 36.
[42] "Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation."
[43] Spencer confessed that of the Synthetic Philosophy "two volumes are missing," the two important volumes on Inorganic Evolution, leading to the evolution of the living and of the non-living (cf. criticisms by Professor James Ward in his Naturalism and Agnosticism, Lecture IX).
[44] For an instance of the masterly work turned out by this school and of the attractiveness of their propaganda, read Huxley's lecture, "On a Piece of Chalk," delivered to the working men of Norwich during the meeting of the British Association in 1868.
[45] For this famous encounter, see Life of Huxley, Vol. I, pp. 179-89, and Life of J. R. Green, pp. 44, 45.