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induction. I am reading his book, which, with much 

 sophistry, as it seems to me, is wonderfully clever and 

 original, and with astounding knowledge." One likes to 

 read this passage so far as it bears on Sir Joseph Hooker ; 

 for, very notably, in what concerns " deduction and induc- 

 tion," we have as glaring an instance as any that occurs 

 anywhere in his big book of Mr. Buckle's peculiar 

 mouthing, and Sir Joseph Hooker is well placed against 

 it, but then further Mr. Darwin himself ! "I 

 hear, however, that the great Buckle highly approves of 

 my book ! " 



One other reference, on Mr. Darwin's part, we find to 

 Buckle. It is this " Have you read Buckle's second 

 volume ? it has interested me greatly ; I do not care 

 whether his views are right or wrong, but I should think 

 they contained much truth. There is a noble love of 

 advancement and truth throughout ; and to my taste he 

 is the very best writer of the English language that ever 

 lived, let the other be who he may." (" I hear, however, 

 that the great Buckle," etc., ii. 315 !) 



Let it be as it may grammatically or otherwise 

 with that " other " of Mr. Darwin's (" be he who he 

 may ! "), it is certainly to be acknowledged as true that 

 there was in Buckle " a noble love of advancement and 

 truth," if what that meant was only the "Revulsion" 

 the reaction, namely, back again to AvfHdrung, 

 against the more acquiescent political and religions 

 views of the Scotts, Wordsworths, Coleridges, Southeys, 

 which were themselves a reaction against the Aufkldrung 

 itself in the first instance, or, what is the same thing, 

 against the religious, or anti-religious, enlightenment of 

 the Humes, Gibbons, and the like. Buckle's whole soul 

 was in that. Let him have reached, however, what 

 depth he may in the understanding of it, he is never to 

 be found beyond the externality of the shell a shell in 



