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connected, and Avherein wrong modes of thought 

 indubitably lead to wrong modes of action. Note- 

 worthy is a defence of the fundamental method of 

 Political Economy, however much its limitations 

 might be forgotten by some of its exponents. The 

 reference to the Church agitation to introduce dog- 

 matic teaching into the elementary schools has also 

 a lasting interest. 



HoDESLEA, Nov. 6, 1894. 



Mt dear Farrer — Whenever you get over the 

 optimism of your youthful constitution (I wish I were 

 endowed with that blessing) you will see that the Gospels 

 and I are right about the Devil being " Prince " (note 

 the distinction — not " king ") of the Cosmos. 



The a priori road to scientific, political, and all other 

 doctrine is H.R.H. Satan's invention — it is the intellectual, 

 broad, and easy path which leadeth to Jehannum. 



The King's road is the strait path of painful observa- 

 tion and experiment, and few they be that enter thereon. 



R. G. Latham, queerest of men, had singular flashes of 

 insight now and then. Forty years ago he gravely told 

 me that the existence of the Established Church was to 

 his mind one of the best evidences of the recency of the 

 evolution of the hiunan type from the simian. 



How much there is to confirm this view in present public 

 opinion and the intellectual character of those who in- 

 fluence it! 



It explains all your difficulties at once, and I regret 

 that I do not seem to have mentioned it at any of those 

 mid-day symposia which were so pleasant when you and 

 I were younger. — Ever yours very faithfully, 



T. H. Huxley. 



P.S. — Apropos of Athelstan Riley and his friends — I 

 feel rather obliged to them. I assented to the compromise 



