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24, BEDFORD SQUARE, BLOOMSBURY.

10 Augt. 1900

Dear Frank,

On the other side is the quotation from B.P. Don't trouble to acknowledge it

Yours ever

G.W.P.

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Henslow Oct 26/60

(2) I am indebted to Mr G. W. Prothero for calling my attention to the following striking passage from the works of a Divine of this period

"Just a similar scepticism has been evinced by nearly all the first physiologists of the day, who have joined in rejecting the development theories of Lamarck and the Vestiges...Yet it is now acknowledged under the high sanction of the name of Owen that 'creation' is only another name for our ignorance of the mode of production...while a work has now appeared by a naturalist of the most acknowledged authority, Mr. Darwin's masterly volume on the "Origin of Species", by the law of 'natural selection,' which now substantiates on undeniable grounds the very principle so long denounced by the first naturalists—the origination of new species by natural causes: a work which must soon bring about an entire revolution of opinion in favour of the grand principle of the self-evolving powers of nature."

Essays and Reviews, 7th edition, 1861 (pp. 138, 139).

Profr. Baden Powell's "Study of the Evidences of Christianity."

[Quoted in ML 1: 175.]