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think that whatever Wace may say, it may be best to get 

 out of the region of controversy as far as possible and 

 hammer in two big nails — (1) that the Demonology of 

 Christianity shows that its founders knew no more about 

 the spiritual world than anybody else, and (2) that 

 Newman's doctrine of " Development " is true to an 

 extent of which the Cardinal did not dream. 



I have been reading some of his works lately, and I 

 understand now why Kingsley accused him of growing 

 dishonesty. 



After an hour or two of him I began to lose sight of 

 the distinction between truth and falsehood. — Ever yours, 



T. H. Huxley. 



If you are at home any day next week I will look in 

 for a chat. 



The controversy was completed by a third article, 

 "Agnosticism and Christianity," in the June number 

 of the Nineteenth Century. There was a humorous 

 aspect of this article which tickled his fancy im- 

 mensely, for he drove home his previous arguments 

 by means of an authority whom his adversaries could 

 not neglect, though he was the last man they could 

 have expected to see brought up against them in this 

 connection — Cardinal Newman. There is no better 

 evidence for ancient than for modern miracles, he 

 says in effect ; let us therefore accept the teachings 

 of the Church which maintains a continuous tradition 

 on the subject. But there is a very different con- 

 clusion to be drawn from the same premises ; all 

 may be regarded as equally doubtful, and so he 

 writes on May 30 to Sir J. Hooker : — 



