138 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY chap. VI 



Knowles suggested instead the " Natural Inequality of 



Men," under which name it actually appeared in 



January. So, too, in the case of a companion article 



in March, the editorial pen was responsible for the 



change from the arid possibilities of " Capital and 



Labour " to the more attractive title of " Capital the 



Mother of Labour." 



With regard to this article and a further project 



of extending his discussion of the subject, he 



writes : — 



3 Jevington Gardens, Eastbourne, 

 Dec. 14, 1889. 



My dear Knowles — I am very glad you think the 

 article will go. It is longer than I intended, but I 

 cannot accuse myself of having wasted words, and I have 

 left out several things that might have been said, but 

 which can come in by and by. 



As to title, do as you like, but that you propose does 

 not seem to me quite to hit the mark. " Political 

 Humbug : Liberty and Equality," struck me as adequate, 

 but my wife declares it is improper. " Political Fictions " 

 might be supposed to refer to Dizzie's novels ! How 

 about " The Politics of the Imagination : Liberty and 

 Inequality " ? 



I should like to have some general title that would 

 do for the " letters " which I see I shall have to write. 

 I think I will make six of them after the fashion of my 

 " Working Men's Lectures," as thus : (1) Liberty and 

 Equality ; (2) Rights of Man ; (3) Property ; (4) Malthus ; 

 (5) Government, the province of the State ; (6) Law- 

 making and Law-breaking. 



I understand you will let me republish them, as soon 

 as the last is out, in a cheap form. I am not sure I will 

 not put them in the form of " Lectures " rather than 

 " Letters." 



