1890 



CONTROVERSY WITH GLADSTONE 175 



forerunners of the English people, delivered in 1870. 

 Taylor says that Cuno was the first to insist upon the 

 proposition that race is not co-extensive with language in 

 1871. That is all stuif. The same thesis had been 

 maintained before I took it up, but I cannot remember 

 by whom.^ 



Won't you refer to the Blackmore Museixm ? I was 

 very much struck with it when at Salisbury the other 

 day. 



Hope they gave you a better lunch at Gloucester than 

 we did here. We'U treat yon better next time in our 

 own den. With the wife's kindest regards — Ever yours 

 very faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



The remark in a preceding letter about " Gladstone, 

 Gore, and Go." turned out to be prophetic as well as 

 retrospective. Mr. Gladstone published this autumn 

 in Good Words his "Impregnable Rock of Holy 

 Scripture," containing an attack upon Huxley's posi- 

 tion as taken up in their previous controversy of 1889. 



The debate now turned upon the story of the 



Gadarene swine. The question at issue was not, at 



first sight, one of vital importance, and one critic at 



least remarked that at their age Mr. Gladstone and 



Professor Huxley might be better occupied than in 



fighting over the Gadarene pigs : — 



If these too famous swine were the only parties to the 

 suit, I for my part (writes Huxley, Coll. Essays, v. 414) 

 should fully admit the justice of the rebuke. But the 

 real issue (he contends) is whether the men of the nine- 

 teenth century are to adopt the demonology of the men 

 of the first century, as divinely revealed truth, or to 

 reject it as degrading falsity. 



1 Cp. letter to Max Miiller of June 15, 1865, vol. i. p. 380. 



