[166] In 1865. "Life and Letters of Sedgwick," ii. p. 412.
[167] "Life, Letters, and Journal of Sir C. Bunbury," iii. p. 66.
[168] "Life and Letters of C. Darwin," i. p. 76.
[169] He maintained for many years an interesting correspondence with Mr. G. Ticknor, of Boston, U.S.A., in which he often discusses political questions, both British and American.
[170] "Travels in North America," chap. ix.
[171] In the later part of his life he appears to have sympathised more with the "Unitarians," for he attended the services at Dr. Martineau's chapel in Little Portland Street, though I am not aware that he formally seceded from the Church of England.
[172] Life, Letters, and Journals, vol. ii. pp. 82-127. It must however, be remembered that the High Church party were not alone in their opposition; indeed, after a time, they were more tolerant of geologists than the extreme "Evangelical" school. I have some cuttings from the Record newspaper, dated about 1876, which are interesting examples of narrow-minded ignorance and theological arrogance.
[173] Life, Letters, and Journal, i. p. 233. "Principles," i. 69 (eleventh edition).
[174] He admits that when Lord Enniskillen and Murchison had seduced him, after a Geological Society meeting, to partake of pterodactyl (woodcock) pie and drink punch into the small hours, his work suffered for four or five days afterwards.
[175] These were about seventy-six in number, the great majority written prior to the last twenty years of his life.