356 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY chap. XIV 



Knowles, and undertaken after perusal of the review 

 of the book in the Times. Huxley intended to have 

 the article ready for the March number of the 

 Nineteenth Centwry, but it grew longer than he had 

 meant it to be, and partly for this reason, partly 

 for fear lest the influenza, then raging at Eastbourne, 

 might prevent him from revising the whole thing at 

 once, he divided it into two instalments. He writes 

 to one daughter on March 1 : — 



I suppose my time will come ; so I am " making hay 

 while the sun shines " (in point of fact it is raining and 

 blowing a gale outside) and finishing my counterblast to 

 Balfour before it does come. 



Love to all you poor past snivellers from an expectant 

 sniveller. 



And to another : — 



I think the cavalry charge in this month's Nineteenth 

 will amuse you. The heavy artillery and the Imyonets 

 will be brought into play nest month. 



Dean Stanley told me he thought being made a 

 bishop destroyed a man's moral courage. I am inclined 

 to think that the practice of the methods of political 

 leaders destroys their intellect for all serious purposes. 



No sooner was the first part safely sent off than 

 the contingency he had feared came to pass ; only, 

 instead of the influenza meaning incapacity for a 

 fortnight, an unlucky chill brought on bronchitis 

 and severe lung trouble.^ The second part of the 

 article was never fully revised for press. 



^ As he wrote ou February 28 to Sir ]\I. Foster : " If I could 

 compound for a few hours' neuralgia, I would not mind ; but 



