PROFESSOR TYNDALL ON SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT.

Timaru Herald, Volume L, Issue 4825, 23 April 1890, Page 3

PROFESSOR TYNDALL ON SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT.

Sir Willinm Haroourt wrote. lo apenllu. ii.nn m referonco lo I'rofupaorT^ndnH's rcoonl Hpocch m Belfast, a lottot 1 m which ho Buys of Frofcssur < Tymlnll's stuloincnt tlint Mr C4ladstona is tlio " wioscdest man of our day and genorfttion" — "nothing moro bigotad and narrow minded oftn bo found m tlio barbarous intolornnca of tho dark ngea.'! Promptly tlio vials of wratli liavo boen omptiod an bit head, for lioro i» Profosior Tyndall'o roply m The Times, wliioli is nbout a« uneompromiaini; " as they nmko them": — "My eminent friond, Sir William Uarcourt, has honored mo with v portion of his honovolcnt attention. With ii stroko of that adulation which baa dono bo muoh to pcrrort big venorable lender's judgmont, ha oombinee tho courteous statement that, cortain utteranco* of mino ot I'l-lfatL troro both ' fooliah and' diagracoful,' \Vill von ullow mo to aasuro thio nuporior rornon thut I am not an 'Orangeman,' and Mint I know nothinjr wlmtovoi' of tho secret) myetfrics of that craft. But I hnvo said and I do niiy, that if over I bnvo to ohooso bctweon v lojnl Oriingcin.in of tho North, nnd Archbishop Croko, with his black myrmidons of tho South and Woefc, I shall without hesitation ahouldcr my riflo among tho Orangemon. An immortal doctrine preached many

years ago was to tho Greeks foolishness. It may bo thut, m his political exegesis, Sir William Ilurcourt is a Greolt. With mgard to tho epithet ' disgraceful, '_ ho iuis a good right to use it m retaliation ; for, Ihough m public I havo never called his conduct disgracoful, m private convocation with my friend-, among tlioso scientific per?ons lio so much contemns, whonover it is deeired to point to tho politician who has moEt prostituted great abilities, tho figure of the Right Honorable Member for Derby leaps at once into view. Scientific men aro occupied with veracities of nature, whilo Mr William Harcourt liob made it tho business of hia life to illustrate tho unvoracily of men. I might bestow more attention upon this gracious ,per-. sonage,. but I am, at tho present moment/ endeavouring to tbo best of my ability to respond to n demand made upon me by bis illustrious chief."