10/26 As soon as you were called you could then follow the South Wales circuit--well, go on about your Dinosaurs. I seem to remember Professor Owen invented them--but _he_ never wavered in his faith and was the great opponent of that rash man, Darwin. Oh, _I_ remember now the old controversies--what a stalwart was the Bishop of Winchester! They couldn't bear him at their Scientific meetings--there was one at Bath, if I recollect right, and he put them all to the right-about. What about your Dinosaurs? God made them and destroyed them in the great Flood, of which their fossil remains are the evidence--" David however would desist from pursuing such futile arguments; feel surprised, indeed, at his own outbreaks, except that he hated insincerity. |