XL] YAlirRi: Of HEALTH. 



' I believe that the effect of the struggle though 



unsuccessful in its immediate object will be to render 



Tyndall and Huxley and their friends more cautious in 



their further proceedings. For instance, Tyndall's book, 



11 withdrawn from Murray's "immediate" list, will 



probably be infinitely more carefully worded relative to 



ilu than lie at first intended/ 



To the Same. 



'EDINBURGH, December 24?A, 1859. 



'. . . 1'isliop Taylor's " Holy Living and Dying," a 



book wonderfully adapted to readers and thinkers of 



. and from which I believe I have derived 



more comfort and instruction than from any book what- 



of a similar description and character. There is no 



book less controversial or more intensely practical. The 



air of the writer compels our attention. And this is 



<1 vantage. To have our thoughts drawn off" for a 



from the cares, the pleasures, the ambitious projects, 



even the praiseworthy employments of this life must 



us all a matter of unspeakable importance/ 



To the Same. 



'EDINBURGH, February 13A, 1860. 



' . . . I am glad you take an interest in Jeremy Taylor. 

 You ought to make great allowance for the style of 

 writers and thinkers even the greatest of his time. 

 Redundancy, quaintness, and ingenuity in devising 

 iigumei e inl'ivd in all men of mark of the seven- 



}i c.-ntury. who had any imagination at all. If old 

 Miy had written like Ilishop lUitler, all hard argu- 

 ments, should we have thankl him for it? not I for 

 one. Let us take what our la>t<- and ri-ht reason 

 5, Miid recollect that in the very many-sidedness 

 ; -..':.: conviction to another though 

 to US. Thus, lor example, about the fear of death, 

 'I8t say that I difl.-r 1V. in y<>u. I !'<] its universality 

 ; all. -vi \ ular lot IS 



full of 1 --s. The f,-llo\\ initi^a; ress, 



