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For Cardinal Manning's attack, see Essays on Religion and Literature, London, 1865. For the review articles, see the Quarterly already cited, and that for July, 1874; also the North British Review, May 1860; also, F.O. Morris's letter in the Record, reprinted at Glasgow, 1870; also the Addresses of Rev.Walter Mitchell before the Victoria Institute, London, 1867; also Rev.B.G.Johns, Moses not Darwin, a Sermon, March 31, 1871. For the earlier American attacks, see Methodist Quarterly Review, April 1871; The American Church Review, July and October, 1865, and January, 1866.
For the Australian attack, see Science and the Bible, by the Right Reverend Charles Perry, D.D., Bishop of Melbourne, London, 1869.
For Bayma, see the Catholic World, vol.xxvi, p.782.For the Academia, see Essays edited by Cardinal Manning, above cited; and for the Victoria Institute, see Scientia Scientarum, by a member of the Victoria Institute, London, 1865. In France the attack was even more violent.
Fabre d'Envieu brought out the heavy artillery of theology, and in a long series of elaborate propositions demonstrated that any other doctrine than that of the fixity and persistence of species is absolutely contrary to Scripture. The Abbe Desorges, a former Professor of Theology, stigmatized Darwin as a "pedant," and evolution as "gloomy".
Monseigneur Segur, referring to Darwin and his followers, went into hysterics and shrieked: "These infamous doctrines have for their only support the most abject passions.
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