  In the end, the philosophical purity of Bondi’s steady state theory served him, and cosmology, well. Of course, the usual suspect, Dingle, and others of his ilk, such as McVittie in particular, were outraged, and loudly, at Bondi’s extension of Milne’s methods. A passage from Dingle’s R.A.S. Presidential Address suffices to show the tenor of the debate’s declining days: