272 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY cilAP. X 



I have a great respect for the Nazarenism of Jesus — 

 very little for later " Christianity." But the only religion 

 that aj^peals to me is prophetic Judaism. Add to it some- 

 thing from the best Stoics and something from Spinoza 

 and something from Goethe, and there is a religion for 

 men. Some of these days I think I will make a cento 

 out of the works of these people. 



I find it hard enough to write decent prose and have 

 usually stuck to that. The " Gib diesen Todten " I am 

 hardly responsible for, as it did itself coming down here 

 in the train after Tennyson's funeraL The notion 

 came into my head in the Abbey. — Ever yours very 

 faithfully, T. H. IIdxlet. 



This winter also Sir R. Owen died, and was buried 

 at Ham on December 23. The grave ends all quarrels, 

 and Huxley intended to be present at the funeral. 

 But as he wrote to Dr. Foster on the 23rd : — 



I had a hard morning's work at University College 

 yesterday, and what with the meeting of the previous 

 evening and that infernal fog, I felt so seedy that I made 

 up my mind to go straight home and be quiet. . . . 



There has been a bitter north-easter all day here, and 

 if the like has prevailed at Ham I am glad I kept out 

 of it, as I am by no means fit to cope with anything of 

 that kind to-day. I do not think I was bound to offer 

 myself up to the manes of the departed, however satis- 

 factory that might have been to the poor old man. Peace 

 be with him ! 



But the old-standing personal differences between 

 the two made it difficult for him to decide what to 

 do with regard to a meeting to raise some memorial 

 to the great anatomist. He writes again to Sir M. 

 Foster, January 8, 1893 : — 



