i and ii.

For Dupanloup, Lettre a un Cardinal, see the Revue de Therapeutique of 1868, p.

221.
The main attack was made rather upon biological science than upon physics and chemistry, yet it was clear that all were involved together.
The first onslaught was made in the French Senate, and the storming party in that body was led by a venerable and conscientious prelate, Cardinal de Bonnechose, Archbishop of Rouen.

It was charged by him and his party that the tendencies of the higher scientific teaching at Paris were fatal to religion and morality.

Heavy missiles were hurled--such phrases as "sapping the foundations," "breaking down the bulwarks," and the like; and, withal, a new missile was used with much effect--the epithet "materialist." The results can be easily guessed: crowds came to the lecture-rooms of the attacked professors, and the lecture-room of Prof.See, the chief offender, was crowded to suffocation.
A siege was begun in due form.