Part 11

Ibid. p. 128.

This Essay was originally prepared as a sermon for Trinity Sunday. For the text were quoted the well-known words of 2 Peter ii. 16, ‘The dumb ass, speaking with man’s voice, forbad the madness of the prophet.’ The design was to show that some of the most unpopular novelties in scientific opinion bore no necessary antagonism to the deepest mysteries of Christian doctrine. In regard to such an attempt it is perhaps needless to add that the kindliness of the design was not fully appreciated by those for whose benefit it was intended.

As in the inscription ‘Jehu, the son of Omri,’ referred to by Lord A. C. Hervey, in Smith’s Dict. of the Bible, Art. ‘Genealogy.’

Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible, Art. ‘Genealogy of Jesus Christ,’ Lord A. C. Hervey, referring to Dr. Mill. Compare also Hengstenberg, Genuineness of the Pentateuch, vol. ii. p. 294, Translation, 1847.

Sir J. Lubbock, ‘Prehistoric Times,’ p. 502, second edition.

Ibid. p. 223.

Ibid. p. 233.

See chapter on Marriage, in Sir J. Lubbock’s ‘Origin of Civilization.’

Sir J. Lubbock, ‘Prehistoric Times,’ p. 380; Sir C. Lyell, ‘Antiquity of Man,’ p. 27.

Lyell, ‘Elements of Geology,’ p. 118, ed. 1865.

Messrs. Pengelly and Vivian, resident at Torquay, acting members of the distinguished committee of exploration.

See Reports of British Association, 1868, p. 57, and 1869, p. 199, by W. Pengelly, Esq., F.R.S.

This is the popular name for them. They do not petrify the specimens placed in them, but only coat them with stalagmite.

The resuming process has not yet been adopted by the modern Fuegians, for Dr. Hooker informs us that at the extreme south of Tierra del Fuego, and in mid-winter, he has often seen the men lying asleep in their wigwams, without a scrap of clothing, and the women standing naked, and some with children at their breasts, in the water up to their middles gathering limpets and other shell fish, while the snow fell thickly on them and on their equally naked babies.’--Sir J. Lubbock, ‘Prehistoric Times,’ p. 532. Jerome declares that he had himself seen the Attacotti, a British tribe, eating human flesh. See Gibbon (vol. iii. p. 270, ed. 1854), who in several passages refers to the practice among various British tribes of going naked, especially in war, citing Appian, Ammianus, and Giraldus Cambrensis as his authorities for British customs. It will be remembered that Cæsar speaks even of the Southern Britons as fighting ‘omnibus membris expediti.’

‘Report of British Association, 1869,’ p. 201.

Nov. 21, 1870.

A formation later than the Devonian, and earlier than the New Red Sandstone.

Revelation x. 6, Authorised Version.

See Mr. Pengelly’s paper on the subject in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association for 1868.

‘Acadian Geology,’ Dawson, p. 386.

See ‘Lecture on Coal,’ by W. Boyd Dawkins, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. Manchester, 1870.

Address to the British Association, 1868, p. 66 of the Report.

In the Collection of W. Pengelly, Esq., F.R.S.

This and the three following letters were originally addressed to the Editor of the Torquay Directory, in answer to a gentleman who, in company with large multitudes of his fellow-Britons, both male and female, holds and upon occasion upholds a mass of opinions on Science and Religion, any one of which opinions individually may be right or may be wrong, but which, when held collectively, seem to my humble understanding to be logically incoherent.

Reprinted from ‘Nature,’ No. 30.

Reprinted from ‘Nature,’ No. 56.

Applying to these caterpillars Mr. A Murray’s recent hypothesis for explaining ‘mimicry’ by hybridization, we should draw the poetical inference that a happy marriage is possible between a butterfly and a rose-bush.

‘Nature,’ No. 66.