1889 'THE NATURAL INEQUALITY OF MEN ' 139 



Did you ever read Henry George's book " Progress 

 and Poverty " ? It is more damneder nonsense than jjoor 

 Eousseau's blether. And to think of the popularity of 

 the book ! But I ought to be grateful, as I can cut and 

 come again at this wonderful dish. 



The mischief of it is I do not see how I am to finish 

 the introduction to my Essays, unless I put off sending 

 you a second dose until March. 



I Avill send back the revise as quickly as possible. — 

 Ever yours very truly, T. H. Huxley. 



You do not tell me that there is anything to which 

 Spencer can object, so I suppose there is nothing. 



And in an undated letter to Sir J. Hooker, he 



says : — 



I am glad you think well of the " Human Inequality " 

 paper. My wife has persuaded me to follow it up with 

 a view to making a sort of " Primer of Politics " for the 

 masses — by and by. " There's no telling what you may 

 come to, my boy," said the Bishop who reproved his son 

 for staring at John Kemble, and I may be a pamphleteer 

 yet ! But really it is time that somebody should treat 

 the people to common sense. 



However, immediately after the appearance of 

 this first article on Human Inequality, he changed 

 his mind about the Letters to Working Men, and 

 resolved to continue what he had to say in the form 

 of essays in the Nineteenth Century. 



He then judged it not unprofitable to call public 

 attention to the fallacies which first found their way into 

 practical politics through the disciples of Rousseau ; 

 one of those speculators of whom he remarks 

 (Coll. Ess. i. 312) that "busied with deduction from 



