CHAPTEE XII 



1893 



The year 1893 was, save for the death of three old 

 friends, Andrew Clark, Jowett, and Tyndall, one of 

 the most tranquil and peaceful in Huxley's whole 

 life. He entered upon no direct controversy ; he 

 published no magazine articles; to the general 

 misapprehension of the drift of his Romanes Lecture 

 he only replied in the comprehensive form of 

 Prolegomena to a reprint of the lecture. He began 

 to publish his scattered essays in a uniform series, 

 writing an introduction to each volume. While 

 collecting his " Darwiniana " for the second volume, 

 he wrote to Mr. Clodd : — 



HoDESLEA, Eastbourne, 

 Nov. 18, 1892. 



I was looking through Man^s Place in Nature the 



other day. I do not think there is a word I need delete, 



nor anything I need add except in confirmation and 



extension of the doctrine there laid down. That is great 



good fortmie for a book thirty years old, and one that a 



very shrewd friend of mine implored me not to publish, 



as it would certainly ruin all my prospects. I said, like 



the French fox-hunter in Punch, " I shall try." 



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