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Their tendency to evolution<br />

Westcott writes to the Archbishop of<br />

Canterbury on O. T. Criticism, March 4, 1890:<br />

“No one now, I suppose, holds that the first<br />

three chapters of Genesis, for example, give a<br />

literal history -- I could never understand how any<br />

one reading them with open eyes could think they<br />

did.”[32]<br />

Hort writes to Mr. John Ellerton:<br />

“I am inclined to think that no such state as<br />

‘Eden’ (I mean the popular notion) ever existed,<br />

and that Adam’s fall in no degree differed from the<br />

fall of each of his descendants, as Coleridge justly<br />

argues.”[33]<br />

Their tractarianism<br />

Westcott writes to his fiancee:<br />

“Today I have again taken up Tracts for the<br />

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