118 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAr. V 



objection to returning books, that I never borrow one 

 or allow anybody to lend me one if I can help it. 



I hear that Wace is to have another innings, and I 

 am very glad of it, as it will give me the opportunity 

 of putting the case once more as a connected argument. 



It is Baur's great merit to have seen that the key 

 to the problem of Christianity lies in the Epistle to the 

 Galatians. No doubt he and his followers rather over- 

 did the thing, but that is always the way with those who 

 take up a new idea. 



I have had for some time the notion of dealing with 

 the "Three great myths" — 1. Creation; 2. Fall; 

 3- Deluge ; but I suspect I am getting to the end of my 

 tether physically, and shaU have to start for the 

 Engadine in another month's time. 



Many thanks for your congratulations about my 

 daughter's marriage. No two people could be better 

 suited for one another, and there is a charming little 

 grand-daughter of the first marriage to be cared for. — 

 Ever yours very faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



One more piece of writing dates from this time. 

 He writes to his wife on March 2 : — 



A man who is bringing out a series of portraits of 

 celebrities, with a sketch of their career attached, has 

 bothered me out of my life for something to go with 

 my portrait, and to escape the abominable bad taste of 

 some of the notices, I have done that. I shall show it 

 you before it goes back to Engel in proo£ 



This sketch of his life is the brief autobiography 

 which is printed at the beginning of vol. i. of the 

 Collected Essays. He was often pressed, both by 

 friends and by strangers, to give them some more 

 autobiography ; but moved either by dislike of any 



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