They may accept it provisionally, as the best hypothesis at present, but they feel about it as they cannot help feeling as to an army which has always been beaten; however strong it seems, they think it will be beaten again.
Bagehot describes the cautious acceptance of the special creation hypothesis among researchers, likening it to a repeatedly defeated army.
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