Yet all "reconcilers" are ridiculed or denounced-at any rate are contemptuously dismissed.
"Creation and Its Records"
B.H. Baden-Powell
Perhaps the greatest of all the reconcilers of a thoughtful man to poverty-and I speak from experience-is the grand quiet it fills him with when the uncertainty of his life shows itself more than usual.
"Desperate Remedies"
Thomas Hardy
But a great deal of the "Proem to Genesis" remains which I would gladly pass over in silence, were such a course consistent with the respect due to so distinguished a champion of the "reconcilers."
"Mr. Gladstone and Genesis Essay #5 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition""
Thomas Henry Huxley