Correspondence on Biology, etc. 



But I have now a new title to speak. It is deafness ; and 

 I know from deafness that I run a worse chance with a man 

 whose mouth is covered with beard and moustache. 



A young relation of mine, slightly deaf, was sorely put 

 to it in an University examination because one of his 

 examiners wa« secretal in this way. 



I will not trouble you further except to express, with 

 misgiving, a doubt on a single point, the final /. 



In driving with Lord Granville, who was deaf but not 

 very deaf, I had occasion to mention to him the Duke of Fife. 

 1 used every effort, but in no way could I contrive to make 

 him hear the word. 



I break my word to add one other particular. Out of 

 27,000 odd lines in Homer, every one of them expressed, in 

 a sense, heavy weight or force; the blows of heavy-armed 

 men on the breastplates of foes . . . [illegible] and the like. 

 —With many thanks, I remain yours very faithfully, 



W. E. Gladstone. 

 P.S. — I should say that the efficacy of lip-expression, 

 undeniably, is most subtle, and defies definite description. 



To Dr. Archdall Reid 



Parkstone, Dorset. April 19, 1896. 



Dear Sir, — I am sorry I had not space to refer more fully 

 to your interesting work.' The most important point on 

 which I think your views require emendation is on instinct. 

 I see you quote Spalding- s experiments, but these have been 

 quite superseded and shown to be seriously incorrect by 

 Prof. Lloyd Morgan. A paper by him in the Fortnightly 

 Review of August, 1893, gives an account of Ms experiments, 

 and he read a paper on the same subject at the British Asso- 

 ciation last year. He is now preparing a volume on the 



1 " The Present Evolution of Man." 1896. 

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