2 gg LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP, xvi 



The G.O.M. is not murdered (he writes on November 20), 

 only " fillipped with a three-man beetle," as the fat knight has it. 



This refers to the forthcoming article in the December 

 Nineteenth Century, " The Keepers of the Herd of Swine," 

 which was followed in March 1891 by " Mr. Gladstone's 

 Controversial Methods " (see Coll. Essays, v. 366 sqq.), the 

 rejoinder to Mr. Gladstone's reply in February. 



The scope of this controversy was enlarged by the inter- 

 vention in the January Nineteenth Century of the Duke of 

 Argyll, to whom he devoted the concluding paragraphs of 

 his March article. But it was scarcely well under way 

 when another, accompanied by much greater effusion of ink 

 and passion, sprang up in the columns of the Times. His 

 share in it, published in 1891 as a pamphlet under the title 

 of " Social Diseases and Worse Remedies," is to be found 

 in Coll. Essays, ix. 237. 



I have a new row on hand in re Salvation Army (he writes 



on December 2) ! It's all Mrs. 's fault; she offered the 



money. 



In fact, a lady who was preparing to subscribe 1000 

 to " General " Booth's " Darkest England " scheme, begged 

 Huxley first to give her his opinion of the scheme and 

 the likelihood of its being properly carried out. A careful 

 examination of " Darkest England ' and other authorities 

 on the subject convinced him that it was most unwise to 

 create an organisation whose absolute obedience to an irre- 

 sponsible leader might some day become a serious danger 

 to the State ; that the reforms proposed were already being 

 undertaken by other bodies, which would be crippled if 

 this scheme were floated ; and that the financial arrange- 

 ments of the Army were not such as provide guarantees 

 for the proper administration of the funds subscribed : 



And if the thing goes on much longer, if Booth establishes 

 his Bank, you will have a crash some of these fine days, com- 

 parable only to Law's Mississippi business, but unfortunately 

 ruining only the poor. 



On the same day he writes to his eldest son : 



