'This is the spirit of the persecutor.' 'Nothing of the kind! It is the spirit of justified reason.

You may say that those people were honestly mistaken;--such honesty is the brand of a brainless obstructive.

_They_ would have persecuted, but too gladly! There were, and are, men who would have committed Darwin to penal servitude, if they had had the power.

Men like Lyell, who were able to develop a new convolution in their brains, I respect heartily.

I only speak of the squalling mass, the obscene herd of idiot mockers.' 'Who assuredly,' remarked Earwaker, 'feel no shame whatever in the retrospect of their idiocy.