In the polemical world of T. H. Huxley liberal reconcilers of Christianity and evolution could be nothing but an ‘army’ bent on blending scientific truth with theological error. Their exploits were simply ‘pseudo-science’, the neutralising of issues as plain as black and white. Huxley was of course mistaken, though his caricature has persisted in a military metaphor. The reconcilers did not always confront clear-cut issues, much less did they blur them. One might well argue that they ‘engaged the advance lines of the realistic modern mind’, but to chide them for a ‘strange insensitiveness to all the implications of science’ and for a delusive belief that they had ‘made contributory to their faith the grand army of scientific inquiry’ seems altogether unjust. Scientists themselves, most of whom were overtly religious, could hardly agree on the theological ‘implications’ of their theories. The ‘grand army of scientific inquiry’ never did exist.