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fail ; but that one practical object may be gained 

 (except as regards Cathedrals) by a flank movement 

 ostensibly directed against the Ilminster case, or rather 

 against the principle affirmed in that case. 



I quite agree, in principle, with your suggestions as 

 to sec. 14 ; only sub-sections 3 and 4 are very little 

 harm, and sub-section 1 will not hurt much for some 

 time to come. 



Will it not be useful for you to have some conversation 

 with me after you have read and digested (if you can 

 read and digest) my remarks ? The best and quietest 

 way of discussing these matters is over our cups, and if 

 you could come quite quietly to dinner with me some 

 day, I shall be glad to see you. If this is inconvenient 

 to you, perhaps you could drop in at the E.S.C. some 

 day when business brings you into that quarter. 



I am sorry to have been so long in writing to you, but 

 have been very much occupied, and now I send you a 

 mere rough draft, just as it is written off. I have no 

 copy, so be kind enough to return it, as it will be useful 

 some day for reference. The remarks on Cathedral 

 schools are, so far as I know, new. At least they have 

 never been uttered in public ; and I should like to re- 

 consider them carefully before giving utterance to them 

 myself. — Very truly yours, Arthur Hobhouse. 



On July 21 he proposed a motion for intro- 

 ducing History, Geography, and Elementary 

 Science into Elementary Schools. The Whip 

 was issued, signed amongst others by Lord 

 Playfair, Mr. Mundella, W. H. Smith, Thos. 

 Hughes, Sam. Morley, G. Dixon, Russel Gurney, 

 and W. Cowper Temple, but the motion was not 

 carried. 



It might hardly seem conceivable that in a 

 year so fully occupied as this with legislative 

 activity, he should yet have time to bestow on 

 his scientific hobbies. Nevertheless, we find 

 him writing a book for Messrs. Macmillan's 

 Nature Series on the Metamorphoses of Insects. 



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