52 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY 



CHAP. II 



85 Marina, St. Leonards, 

 Dec. 1887. 



My deau Spencer — I liave nothing to criticise in the 

 enclosed except that the itineraries seem to me rather 

 superfluous. 



I am glad to find that you forget things that have 

 happened to you as completely as I do. I shoidd cut 

 almost as bad a figure as " Sir lloger " if I were cross- 

 examined about my past life. 



Your allusion to sending me the proofs made me laugh 

 by reminding me of a particularly insolent criticism with 

 which I once favoured you : " No objection except to the 

 wholr." 



It was some piece of diabolical dialectics, in which I 

 could pick no hole, if the premises were granted — and 

 even then could be questioned only by an ultra-sceptic ! 



Do you see that the American Association of Authors 

 has adopted a Resolution, which is a complete endorsement 

 of my view of the stamp-swindle ? 



We have got our operation over, and my wife is going 

 on very well. Overmuch anxiety has been telling on me, 

 but I shall throw it oft" — Ever yours very faithfully, 



T. H. HUXLET. 



