all purely controversial matter, and justification for reference to them lies only in the fact that the contest between the biologists and the bishops is not yet ended. In contrast to all this, and in evidence of the compromise by which theology is vainly striving to justify itself, are these vague sentences from Archdeacon Wilson's address at the Church Congress at Shrewsbury in the autumn of 1896: "It is scarcely too much to say that the Theistic Evolutionist cannot be otherwise than a practical Trinitarian, and cannot find a difficulty in the Incarnation or in the doctrine of the Holy Spirit." "Christian doctrine, apart from the statement of historical facts, is the attempt to create out of Christ's teaching, a philosophy of life which shall satisfy these needs (i. e., the needs of humanity), and it will therefore remain the same in substance. But the form in which that doctrine will be presented must change with man's intellectual environment. The bearing of Evolution on Christian doctrine is, therefore, in a word, to modify, not the doctrine, but the form in which it is expressed." Postponing the story of the famous debate between Wilberforce and Huxley, the reception accorded to the Origin of Species by Darwin's scientific contemporaries may be noted. Herbert Spencer's position, as will be shown later on, was already distinctive: he was a Darwinian before Darwin. Hooker, Huxley,--who said that he was prepared to go to the stake, if needs be, in support of some parts of the book,--Bates, and Lubbock were immediate converts; so were Asa Gray and Lyell, but with reservations, for Lyell, whose creed was Unitarian, never wholly accepted the inclusion of man, "body, soul, and spirit," as the outcome of natural selection. Henslow and Pictet went one mile, but refused to go twain; Agassiz, Murray, and Harvey would have none of the new heresy; neither would Adam Sedgwick, who wrote a long protest to Darwin, couched in loving terms, and ending with the hope that "we shall meet in heaven." The attitude of Owen, if apparently neutral or tentative in open conversation, was, as an anonymous critic, deadly hostile. Although it is not included in the list of his writings given in the Life by his grandson, he is known to have been the author of the critique on the Origin of Species in the Edinburgh Review of April, 1860.