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dangled before them. A man really may love 

 his fellow-men ; cherish any form of Christianity 

 he pleases; and hold not only that Darwinism 

 is "tottering to its fall," but, if he pleases, the 

 equally sane belief that it never existed ; and yet 

 may feel it his duty to oppose, to the best of his 

 capacity, despotic Socialism in all its forms, and, 

 more particularly, in its Boothian disguise. 



I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 

 T. H. HUXLEY. 



[Persons who have not had the advantage of a 

 classical education might fairly complain of my 

 use of the word epigoni. To say truth, I had 

 been reading Droysen's " Geschichte des Hellen- 

 ismus," and the familiar historical title slipped 

 out unawares. In replying to me, however, the 

 late "Fellow of University College," Oxford, 

 declares he had to look the word out in a 

 Lexicon. I commend the fact to the notice of 

 the combatants over the desirability of retaining 

 the present compulsory modicum of Greek in our 

 Universities.] 



