For the English attacks on Darwin's Descent of Man, see the Edinburgh Review July, 1871 and elsewhere; the Dublin Review, July, 1871; the British and Foreign Evangelical Review, April, 1886.

See also The Scripture Doctrine of Creation, by the Rev.T.
R.Birks, London, 1873, published by the S.P.C.K.

For Dr.Pusey's attack, see his Unscience, not Science, adverse to Faith, 1878; also Darwin's Life and Letters, vol.ii, pp.

411, 412.
But it was noted that this second series of attacks, on the Descent of Man, differed in one remarkable respect--so far as England was concerned--from those which had been made over ten years before on the Origin of Species.

While everything was done to discredit Darwin, to pour contempt upon him, and even, of all things in the world, to make him--the gentlest of mankind, only occupied with the scientific side of the problem--"a persecutor of Christianity," while his followers were represented more and more as charlatans or dupes, there began to be in the most influential quarters careful avoidance of the old argument that evolution--even by natural selection--contradicts Scripture.
It began to be felt that this was dangerous ground.