Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions

Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions

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'In examples of patient constancy of faith and of unswerving trust the Acta Martyrum do not excell (sic) the aninals (sic) of Babism.* *[See De Gobineau, Les Religions et les Philosophies dans l'Asie Centrale; and the recently published work of Mr. E. G. Browne, The Episode of the Bab.]' This passage appears in chapter IX entitled 'Agnosticism', an essay that appeared in the journal, Nineteenth Century, Feb. 1889. We know that Huxley updated the article for publication in this book because Browne's 'Traveller's Narrative : Episode of the Bab' was first published in 1891.

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