[253] Hist. of the Inductive Sciences, 3rd ed. iii, 479–83; Life, as above cited. Whewell is said to have refused to allow a copy of the Origin of Species to be placed in the Trinity College Library. White, i, 84. [↑]
[255] Edward Clodd, Thomas Henry Huxley, 1902, pp. 19–20. [↑]
[256] Luthardt, Fundamental Truths of Christianity, Eng. tr. 1865, p. 74. [↑]
[257] See the many examples cited by White. As late as 1885 the Scottish clergyman Dr. Lee is quoted as calling the Darwinians “gospellers of the gutter,” and charging on their doctrine “utter blasphemy against the divine and human character of our incarnate Lord” (White, i, 83). Carlyle is quoted as calling Darwin “an apostle of dirt-worship.” His admirers appear to regard him as having made amends by admitting that Darwin was personally charming. [↑]
[258] E.g. the Education, small ed. pp. 41, 155. [↑]
[259] I am informed on good authority that in later life Huxley changed his views on the subject. He had abundant cause. As early as 1879 he is found complaining (pref. to Eng. tr. of Haeckel’s Freedom in Science and Teaching, p. xvii) of the mass of “falsities at present foisted upon the young in the name of the Church.” [↑]
[260] See a choice collection in the pamphlet What Men of Science say about God and Religion, by A. E. Proctor; Catholic Truth Society. [↑]
[261] Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, ed. 1888, iii, 179. [↑]
[262] It is doubtful whether C. A. Walckenaer should be so described. His Essai sur l’histoire de l’espèce humaine (1798) has real scientific value. [↑]