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(1) because I felt that English opinion would not let us 

 have the education of the masses at any cheaper price ; 



(2) because, with the Bible in lay hands, I was satisfied 

 that the teaching from it would gradually become modified 

 into harmony with common sense. 



I do not doubt that this is exactly what has happened, 

 and is the ground of the alarm of the orthodox. 



But I do not repent of the compromise in the least. 

 Twenty years of reasonably good primary education is 

 " worth a mass." 



Moreover the Diggleites stand to lose anyhow, and 

 they will lose most completely and finally if they win at 

 the elections this month. So I am rather inclined to 

 hope they may. 



HoDESLEA, Stavelet Road, Eastbourne, 

 Nov. 3, 1894. 



My dear Mr. Clodd — They say that the first thing 

 an Englishman does when he is hard up for money is to 

 abstain from buying books. The first thing I do when I 

 am liver-y, lumbagy, and generally short of energy, is to 

 abstain from answering letters. And I am only just 

 emerging from a good many weeks of that sort of flabbi- 

 ness and poverty. 



Many thanks for your notice of Kidd's book. Some 

 vile punsters called it an attempt to put a Kid glove on 

 the iron hand of Nature. I thought it (I mean the book, 

 not the pun) clever from a literary point of view, and 

 worthless from any other. You will see that I have been 

 giving Lord Salisbury a Eoland for his Oliver in Nature. 

 But, as hinted, if we only had been in Section D ! 



With my wife's and my kind regards and remem- 

 brances — Ever yours very truly, T. H. Huxley. 



Athen^um Club, Dec. 19, 1894. 

 My dear Farrer — I am indebted to you for giving 

 the recording angel less trouble tlian he might otherwise 



