260 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP, xv 



And I suppose the little beast would say he did not know I 

 opened it in October instead of November ! 



I hate such mean ways. Hang all telegraph boys ! Ever 

 yours very faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



Monday, December 2, if you have nothing against it, and 

 lunch if Mrs. Knowles will give me some. 



The article was finished by the middle of December 

 and duly sent to the editor, under the title of " Rousseau 

 and Rousseauism." But fearing that this title would 

 scarcely attract attention among the working men for whom 

 it was specially designed, Mr. Knowles suggested instead 

 the ' Natural Inequality of Men," under which name it 

 actually appeared in January. So, too, in the case of a 

 companion article in March, the editorial pen was re- 

 sponsible for the change from the arid possibilities of 

 1 Capital and Labour ' to the more attractive title of 

 " Capital the Mother of Labour." 



With regard to this article and a further project of 

 extending his discussion of the subject, he writes : 



3 JEVINGTON GARDENS, EASTBOURNE, 

 Dec. 14, 1889. 



MY DEAR KNOWLES I am very glad you think the article 

 will go. It is longer than I intended, but I cannot accuse myself 

 of having wasted words, and I have left out several things that 

 might have been said, but which can come in by and by. 



As to title, do as you like, but that you propose does not 

 seem to me quite to hit the mark. ' Political Humbug : Liberty 

 and Equality," struck me as adequate, but my wife declares it 

 is improper. " Political Fictions " might be supposed to refer 

 to Dizzie's novels ! How about " The Politics of the Imagina- 

 tion : Liberty and Inequality " ? 



I should like to have some general title that would do for the 

 " letters " which I see I shall have to write. I think I will make 

 six of them after the fashion of my " Working Men's Lectures," 

 as thus: (i) Liberty and Equality; (2) Rights of Man; (3) 

 Property; (4) Malthus; (5) Government, the province of the 

 State; (6) Law-making and Law-breaking. 



I understand you will let me republish them, as soon as the 

 last is out, in a cheap form. I am not sure I will not put them 

 in the form of " Lectures " rather than " Letters." 



