566 Edward Livingston Youmans. 



tention not to continue the controversy, I hoped it would drop. 

 Here, however, came the prospect of a revival in another shape ; and 

 I had to choose between republication by my American friends or 

 republication by your friends, with the implication that I was averse 

 to it. Though I should have preferred passivity, yet, under the cir- 

 cumstances stated, I thought it best to assent to republication. One 

 objection, however, became manifest. While in my replies to you I 

 had pointed out sundry of your many misrepresentations, I passed 

 over others — one reason being that I could not trespass too much on 

 the space of the Nineteenth Century and the attention of its readers. 

 Now, however, when it was proposed that the statements contained 

 in your articles should be rediffused, and take a permanent form in- 

 stead of a temporary form, I felt that I could not leave unnoticed 

 these other misrepresentations. Appearing in a volume issued by 

 my American publishers, and edited by my American friend, the 

 implication would have been that statements made by you to 

 which no objection was raised were correct statements. If words 

 in quotation marks tacitly ascribed by you to me had not been 

 disowned by me (p. 112), it would, of course, have been assumed 

 that I had used then\, and that I stood convicted of the absurdity 

 which you allege on the assumption that I had used them. If it 

 had not been shown that an opinion you debit me with (p. 129) is 

 wholly at variance with opinions which I have expressed in three 

 different places, it would naturally have been concluded that I held 

 the opinion. Hence it was clear that unless I was to authorize 

 the stereotyping of these and other errors I must take measures 

 to dissipate them. I therefore pointed out to Prof. Youmans the 

 statements which required notice, indicated the needful rectifica- 

 tions, and requested him to append these rectifications in his own 

 way. At the same time I forwarded him a copy of the letter which 

 you published in the Pall Mall Gazette, saying that ' if this reprint 

 of the articles is published without this letter, he (you) will inevitably 

 say that his final reply has been omitted. It is needful, therefore, 

 that it should be included.' And along with your letter I sent indi- 

 cations of the points in it which should be noticed. 



" Do you think I was not justified in this course ? Do you think 

 I ought to have withheld my consent to the republication by my 

 friends, leaving your friends to republish } Do you think that, having 

 assented to republication, I ought to have let pass without correction 



