The flock was left undefended against the ravages of Austin Strauss. On ...

The flock was left undefended against the ravages of Austin Strauss.

On the other side, the English mind was particularly well equipped to grasp the arguments of

the biologists.

The natural sciences in all their branches-rocks, fossils, birds, beasts, fish, and flowers -were a national hobby; the Vestiges of Creation, issued with elaborate secrecy and attributed by a wild surmise to Prince Albert, was a national excitement; translated into golden verse by Tennyson, evolution almost became a national creed. In Memoriam,

which is nine years older than the

Origin of Species,' gathered up all the doubts of Christianity, of providence, of immortality, which the advance of science had implanted in anxious minds, and answered them, or seemed to answer them, with the assurance of a pantheistic and yet personal faith in progress.

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