By the way, how comes it that you were not attacked?
Does Owen begin to find it more prudent to leave you alone?
I would give five shillings to know what tremendous blunder the Bishop made; for I see that a page has been cancelled and a new page gummed in.
I am indeed most thoroughly contented with the progress of opinion.
From all that I hear from several quarters, it seems that Oxford did the subject great good.

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An account of the meeting of the British Association at Oxford in 1860 is given in the "Life and Letters," II., page 320, and a fuller account in the one-volume "Life of Charles Darwin," 1892, page 236.

See also the "Life and Letters of T.H.

Huxley," Volume I., page 179, and the amusing account of the meeting in Mr.
Tuckwell's "Reminiscences of Oxford," London, 1900, page 50.) It is of enormous importance the showing the world that a few first-rate men are not afraid of expressing their opinion.