"We have at last," he declared, "a handbook which we can safely put into the hands of youth." Scarcely less vigorous were the champions of English Protestant orthodoxy.

In an address at Liverpool, Mr.Gladstone remarked: "Upon the grounds of what is termed evolution God is relieved of the labour of creation; in the name of unchangeable laws he is discharged from governing the world"; and, when Herbert Spencer called his attention to the fact that Newton with the doctrine of gravitation and with the science of physical astronomy is open to the same charge, Mr.Gladstone retreated in the Contemporary Review under one of his characteristic clouds of words.

The Rev.Dr.Coles, in the British and Foreign Evangelical Review, declared that the God of evolution is not the Christian's God.

Burgon, Dean of Chichester, in a sermon preached before the University of Oxford, pathetically warned the students that "those who refuse to accept the history of the creation of our first parents according to its obvious literal intention, and are for substituting the modern dream of evolution in its place, cause the entire scheme of man's salvation to collapse." Dr.Pusey also came into the fray with most earnest appeals against the new doctrine, and the Rev.Gavin Carlyle was perfervid on the same side.

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge published a book by the Rev.Mr.Birks, in which the evolution doctrine was declared to be "flatly opposed to the fundamental doctrine of creation." Even the London Times admitted a review stigmatizing Darwin's Descent of Man as an "utterly unsupported hypothesis," full of "unsubstantiated premises, cursory investigations, and disintegrating speculations," and Darwin himself as "reckless and unscientific."(24) (24) For the French theological opposition to the Darwinian theory, see Pozzy, La Terre at le Recit Biblique de la Creation, 1874, especially pp.