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The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature by Thomas
Henry Huxley This is Essay #4 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition"

Our fabulist warns "those who in quarrels interpose" of the fate which
is probably in store for them; and, in venturing to place myself between
so powerful a controversialist as Mr. Gladstone and the eminent divine
whom he assaults with such vigour in the last number of this
Review,<1> I am fully aware that I run great danger of verifying Gay's
prediction. Moreover, it is quite possible that my zeal in offering aid to
a combatant so extremely well able to take care of himself as M.
Reville may be thought to savour of indiscretion.
Two considerations, however, have led me to face the double risk. The
one is that though, in my judgment, M. Reville is wholly in the right in
that part of the controversy to which I propose to restrict my

observations, nevertheless he, as a foreigner, has very little chance of
making the truth prevail with Englishmen against the authority and the
dialectic skill of the greatest master of persuasive rhetoric among
English- speaking men of our time. As the Queen's proctor intervenes,
in certain cases, between two litigants in the interests of justice, so it
may be permitted me to interpose as a sort of uncommissioned science
proctor. My second excuse for my meddlesomeness is, that important
questions of natural science-- respecting which neither of the
combatants professes to speak as an expert--are involved in the
controversy; and I think it is desirable that the public should know what
it is that natural science really has to say on these topics, to the best
belief of one who has been a diligent student of natural science for the
last forty years.
The original "Prolegomenes de l'Histoire des Religions" has not come
in my way; but I have read the translation of M. Reville's work,
published in England under the auspices of Professor Max Muller, with
very great interest. It puts more fairly and clearly than any book
previously known to me, the view which a man of strong religious
feelings, but at the same time possessing the information and the
reasoning power which enable him to estimate the strength of scientific
methods of inquiry and the weight of scientific truth, may be expected
to take of the relation