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interested in evolution than they fbnjierly were.
Just because^ it is forbidden in the schools they
make a point of finding out what they can from
other sources. The effect resembles that which
has followed the prohibition of alcohol. They
are all the keener to get it if they can." The
anti-British propaganda of American school-
histories seems to invite a similar " reaction***
Mr. Ford's dictum may be a sign of it*

While professing for myself an attitude of
complacency, not unmingled with sympathy,
when confronted with memorials of the British
defeat, I must confess that a memorial I came
across in Pittsburg did cause me a passing
wave of mild indignation,

Near the centre of this great city, named after
Pitt, and in a position where hundreds of people
must see it every day, is a st<?ne, erected by the
Daughters of the American Revolution, which
records that on this spot the ** British " were
defeated by the French and Indians in 1?56.

This is hardly fair play. It involves a dis-
tortion of history, and is unjust to Pitt, who has,
I suppose, as good a claim as anybody to be
reckoned the patron saint of Pittsburg. It is
true that the troops defeated on that spot were
" British," though probably there were ** Aineri-
.cans ** among them, and it was Pitt who had
sent them out, to be defeated or victorious as
the fortune of war might determine. But in
1756 there was no distinction between the