[Footnote 69: Dr. Newman faces this question with his customary ability. "Now, I own, I am not at all solicitous to deny that this doctrine of an apostate Angel and his hosts was gained from Babylon: it might still be Divine nevertheless. God who made the prophet's ass speak, and thereby instructed the prophet, might instruct His Church by means of heathen Babylon" (Tract 85, p. 83). There seems to be no end to the apologetic burden that Balaam's ass can carry.] [Footnote 70: _Nineteenth Century_, May 1889 (p. 701).] [Footnote 71: I trust it may not be supposed that I undervalue M. Renan's labours, or intended to speak slightingly of them.] End of Project Gutenberg's Lectures and Essays, by Thomas Henry Huxley