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regard to its truth or falsehood, have often 

 enough misrepresented my plain meaning. But 

 Mr. Lilly is not one of these folks at whom one 

 looks and passes by, and I can but sorrowfully 

 wonder at finding him in such company. 



So much for the three theses which Mr. Lilly 

 has nailed on to the page of this Review. I think 

 I have shown that the first is inaccurate, that the 

 second is inaccurate, and that the third is in 

 accurate ; and that these three inaccurates con 

 stitute one prodigious, though I doubt not unin 

 tentional, misrepresentation. If Mr. Lilly and I 

 were dialectic gladiators, fighting in the arena of 

 the " Fortnightly," under the eye of an editorial 

 lanista, for the delectation of the public, my best 

 tactics would now be to leave the field of battle. 

 For the question whether I do, or do not, hold 

 certain opinions is a matter of fact, with regard to 

 which my evidence is likely to be regarded as 

 conclusive at least until such time as the tele 

 pathy of the unconscious is more generally recog 

 nised. 



However, some other assertions are made by 

 Mr. Lilly which more or less involve matters of 

 opinion whereof the rights and wrongs are less 

 easily settled, but in respect of which he seems to 

 me to err quite as seriously as about the topics 

 we have been hitherto discussing. And the im 

 portance of these subjects leads me to venture upon 

 saying something about them, even though I am 



