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the Christians in the amphitheatre (I was in the arena), 

 and truthfulness, on the other hand, bound me to say- 

 nothing that I did not fuHy mean. Under these circum- 

 stances one has to leave a great many i's undotted and t's 

 uncrossed. 



Pray remember me very kindly to Mrs. Skelton, and 

 believe me — Yours ever, T. H. Huxley. 



And again on Oct. 17 : — 



Ask your Old Man of Hoy to be so good as to sus- 

 pend judgment until the Lecture appears again with an 

 appendix in that collection of volumes the bulk of 

 which appals me. 



Didn't I see somewhere that you had been made Poor 

 Law pope, or something of the sort ? I congratulate the 

 poor more than I do you, for it must be a weary business 

 trying to mend the irremediable. (No, I am not glancing 

 at the whitewashing of Mary.) 



Here may be added two later letters bearing in 

 part upon the same subject : — 



HoDESLEA, Eastbourne, 

 March 23, 1894. 



Dear Sir — I ought to have thanked you before now 

 for your letter about Nietzsche's works, but I have not 

 much working time, and I find letter-writing a burden, 

 which I am always trying to shirk. 



I wiU look up Nietzsche, though I must confess that 

 the profit I obtain from German authors on speculative 

 questions is not usually great. 



As men of research in positive science they are mag- 

 nificently laborious and accurate. But most of them 

 have no notion of stj'le, and seem to compose their books 

 with a pitchfork. 



There are two very different questions which people 

 fail to discriminate. One is whether evolution accounts 



