[152] See _Michaelis_, _Commentaries on the Laws of Moses_, 1874, vol. ii., p. 3. The writer of the present article himself witnessed the reluctance of a very conscientious man to answer the questions of a census marshal, Mr. Lewis Hawley, of Syracuse, N. Y., and this reluctance was based upon the reasons assigned in II. Samuel chapter xxiv. 1, and I. Chronicles, chapter xxi. 1, for the numbering of the children of Israel. [153] See _De Morgan_, _Paradoxes_, pp. 214-220. [154] For _Dupanloup_, _Lettre à un Cardinal_, see the _Revue de Thérapeutique_, 1868, p. 221. [155] For general account of the Vulpian and See matter, see _Revue des Deux Mondes_, 31 Mai, 1868. _Chronique de la Quinzaine_, pp. 763-765. As to the result on popular thought, may be noted the following comment on the affair by the _Revue_, which is as free as possible from anything like rabid anti-ecclesiastical ideas: "_Elle a été vraiment curieuse, instructive, assez triste et même un peu amusante._" For Wurtz's statement, see _Revue de Thérapeutique_ for 1868, p. 303. [156] _De Morgan_, _Paradoxes_, pp. 421-428; also, _Daubeny's Essays_. [157] See the Berlin newspapers for the summer of 1868, especially _Kladderadatsch_. [158] In the _Church Journal_, New York, May 28, 1874, a reviewer, praising Rev. Dr. Hodge's book against Darwinism, says: "Darwinism--whether Darwin knows it or not; whether the clergy, who are half prepared to accept it in blind fright as 'science,' know it or not--is a denial of every article of the Christian faith. It is supreme folly to talk as some do about accommodating Christianity to Darwinism. Either those who so talk do not understand Christianity, or they do not understand Darwinism. If we have all, men and monkeys, women and baboons, oysters and eagles, all 'developed' from an original monad and germ, then St. Paul's grand deliverance--'All flesh is not the same flesh. There is one kind of flesh of men, another of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are bodies celestial and bodies terrestrial'--may be still very grand in our funeral-service, but very untrue to fact." This is the same dangerous line of argument which Caccini indulged in in Galileo's time. Dangerous, for suppose "Darwinism" _be proved true_! For a soothing potion by a skillful hand, see _Whewell_ on the consistency of evolution doctrines with teleological ideas; also, _Rev. Samuel Houghton, F. R. S._, _Principles of Animal Mechanics_, London, 1873, preface, and page 156, for some interesting ideas on teleological evolution. [159] For some excellent remarks on the futility of such attempts and outcries, see the _Rev. Dr. Deems_, in POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY for February, 1876. To all who are inclined to draw scientific conclusions from Biblical texts, may be commended the advice of a good old German divine of the Reformation period: "Seeking the milk of the Word, do not press the teats of Holy Writ too hard."