The motives that impel me to take up the cudgels against Prof. Cleland are written in the thirty-second chapter of the Book of Job. Far better would it have been had the challenge been accepted by someone whose authority and standing were comparable with those of Prof. Cleland, but in default of such a champion my feelings are those so vividly described in the seventeenth and three following verses of the said chapter, by Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram.