causes apply with especial force to the Professor himself. In him the imagination prevails over the reasoning power, and he is more given to flights of fancy than to patient and calm reflection; and, moreover, his mind is evidently biased by the fact that his studies have been chiefly directed to the elucidation of the phenomena of heat, light, radiation, and magnetism. It would have been more prudent if he had adhered to those subjects of which he had been so distinguished an expositor, and refrained from trespassing on the fields of psychology and medicine. When he attempted to write on fever germs, he forgot the old adage, Ne sutor ultra crepidam. But there was a moral grandeur about Newton which peculiarly fitted him for the perception and reception of ethical and religious truth. Although he was the greatest natural philosopher that ever lived, there was in him none of that conceit or intellectual pride so conspicuous in the writings of many of the physiologists and

hers of the present day. To him the ial saying, "Science puffeth up," does ly; for his modesty was so great that it n reported of him that he compared to a child gathering pebbles on the e, and occasionally picking up one than those found by his companions. rrogance of some of these modern philois glaringly displayed in an anonymous which appeared in a leading periodical, hich the following extract is taken :the legitimate solaces of the toils of the biologist, there should certainly be d the grim delight, which he were less man if he did not feel, in terrifying undy. Merely to hear a Huxley or a shout 'Boh' to a flock of the terrified. is amusing; but to the man himself xes it, the fun must be even perilously ng." If the writer of this article, so

ous for its choice English and gentle

manly tone, has seen Dr. Tyndall's Address, the Professor's attack on religion must have caused him "grim delight" indeed. In reply to the covert insult, we have only to observe, that although the Archbishop of Canterbury and other timid divines have admitted the possibility that the evolution theory may be true, there is a host of muscular Christians and red-cross knights, both in and out of the Established Church, ready to do battle with Huxley or Spencer or any other champion of the evolution cause. Dr. Watts, of Belfast, has recently given their advocate, Dr. Tyndall, some staggering blows, in his able and eloquent pamphlet on "Atomism." Dr. Ellicott, Bishop of Bristol and Gloucester, a man whose zeal, learning, and calm defence of religious truth has won the respect of all parties, has boldly come forward to meet the attack. In an article on Christian Evidences, in the last January number of the Sunday at Home, he makes the following valuable remarks:-" We

stimony, and to subjective persuasions, w find ourselves face to face with ably uments and startling facts, and a coned upon us which it is worse than to decline. Before us, able and confionents, calmly watching each hurried of some hitherto assumed truth ; s and behind us, either a cold orthot declines to enter into a controversy tics, or a timid and conventional religion, not the faith or the courage to examine position, to test the real nature of its and to prepare firmly and charitably art in the inevitable encounter."

erring to the scientific discoveries and 1 intellectual activity of the Arabs he Middle Ages, and the intrusion of rs into Spain, the Professor seizes the nity, as is his wont, in the opening part

of his Address, to sneer at Christianity; and remarking on the superstition of the Spanish peasantry, he forgets that in the most civilized countries of the nineteenth century there are still ignorant classes of the community who think it an interference with Providence to make use of vaccination, or to call in the aid of a medical man during illness. He observes : "When smitten with disease, the Christian peasant resorted to a shrine, the Moorish one to an instructed physician." Be this as it may, the Moors, with all their science, were not an unmixed benefit to Spain, and their expulsion in the fifteenth century, and the advantages which accrued therefrom, are thus spoken of by Hume, an author for whom Dr. Tyndall professes great admiration, and who has no Christian proclivities: "Spain, which had hitherto been almost entirely occupied within herself, now became formidable by the union of Arragon and Castile, in the persons of Ferdinand and