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Mr. Bagehot, who was then brilliantly editing 

 the Economist, wrote on the same subject. 



My dear Lubbock — I have written to New York 

 for the Reports of the New York Clearing House, and 

 have no doubt I shall get it soon. 



I cannot help thinking the publication of the returns 

 of the amounts passing through the Clearing House 

 would be very valuable ; . . . both as a guide to the public 

 as to the quantity of business done, and as a datum to 

 statistical enquirers in many important problems. I 

 have often heard it lamented that there is nothing later 

 on the subject than Mr. Babbage's antediluvian figures 

 of 1839. 



Under date May 27, 1867, he received the 

 following letter from Charles Kingsley, rather 

 belated, in acknowledgment of Prehistoric Times : 



My dear Lubbock — I have just received, from 

 Macmillan, a copy of your excellent book (Prehistoric 

 Times), sent to me on the 20th of May 1865. 



This may explain to you why I have never acknow- 

 ledged it. I had always hoped that you would send me 

 a copy — and was afraid that you had forgotten me. 

 The book must have been in this back shop all the while 

 and I none the wiser. I now thank you heartily. I had, 

 of course, known all about the book by reviews ; but had 

 not had time to read it. I have just been looking into 

 your last chapter, which is excellent and true. I used 

 much the same arguments in 2 lectures at the R.I. 

 last year. But still, I think there is more to be con- 

 sidered, and will some day tell you what I think. I am 

 sure that civilisation does not decrease man's inclination 

 to sin — in the true meaning of afiapria, missing the 

 mark, and falling short of the ideal. Witness the 

 siecle Louis Quatorze, when men did wrong with all 

 their hearts knowing it to be wrong. But the nearer 

 man is to the animals, and the less civilised, and therefore 

 the more the puppet of circumstances, the more your 

 theory (quite true in so far) works, and is a great fact. 

 Cognate with this is the question whether certain races 

 of man are degraded. You think not — (as it seems to 



