Popular Science Monthly/Volume 41/September 1892/The Decline of
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Monthly Volume 41 September 1892 (1892) The Decline of
Bibliolatry By Thomas Henry Huxley |The Marine Biological
Laboratory→| By Prof. T. H. HUXLEY. MY memory, unfortunately,
carries me back to the fourth decade of the nineteenth century,
when the evangelical flood had a little abated and the tops of
certain mountains were soon to appear, chiefly in the
neighborhood of Oxford; but when, nevertheless, bibliolatry was
rampant; when church and chapel alike proclaimed, as the oracles
of God, the crude assumptions of the worst informed and, in
natural sequence, the most presumptuously bigoted, of all
theological schools. In accordance with promises made on my
behalf, but certainly without my authorization, I was very early
taken to hear "sermons in the vulgar tongue." And vulgar enough
often was the tongue in which some preacher, ignorant alike of
literature, of history, of science, and e