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WE have derived much entertainment from Father Gerard's lively chapters. They constitute an ably constructed plea for agnosticism in science. Not Huxley himself was so rigid in demanding exact demonstration of the truth of every statement required to be believed, as is this latest critic of the doctrine of evolution.
The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer.
By John Gerard Pp. vi + 293. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1904.) Price 5s. net.
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D., F. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer . Nature 70, 504–505 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070504b0
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