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concurrence of damnatory evidence was already 

 extant? 



I have nothing to say about Mr. Booth person- 

 ally, for I know nothing. On that subject, as on 

 several others, I profess myself an agnostic. But, 

 if he is, as he may be, a saint actuated by the 

 purest of motives, he is not the first saint who, as 

 you have said, has shown himself " in the ardour 

 of prosecuting a well-meant object " to be capable 

 of overlooking " the plain maxims of every-day 

 morality." If I were a Salvationist soldier, I 

 should cry with Othello, " Cassio, I love thee; but 

 never more be officer of mine." 



I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



V. 



The " Times," December 24th, 1890. 



SIR, If I have any strong points, finance is 

 certainly not one of them. But the financial, or 

 rather fiscal, operations of the General of the 

 Salvation Army, as they are set forth and ex- 

 emplified in "The New Papacy," possess that 

 grand simplicity which is the mark of genius; 



