Alfred Russel Wallace 



from chees — ^it's too amnsing to be fair work, and too hard 

 work to be amusing. — Yours faithfully, ip g. Huxley^ 



To T. H. Huxley 



9 St. Mark's Crescent, Regent's Park, N.W. 



December 1, 1866. 



Dear Huxley, — Thanks for your note. Of course, I 

 have no wish to press on you an inquiry for which you 

 have neither time nor inclination. As for the " gossip " 

 you speak of, I care for it as little as you can do, but what 

 I do feel an intense interest in is the exhibition of force 

 where force has been declared impossible, and of intelli- 

 gence from a source the very mention of which has been 

 deemed an absurdity. 



Faraday has declared (apropos of this subject) that he 

 who can prove the existence or exertion of force, if but the 

 lifting of a single ounce, by a power not yet recognised by 

 science, will deserve and assuredly receive applause and 

 gratitude. (I quote from memory the sense of his expres- 

 sions in his Lecture on Education.) 



I believe I can now show such a, force, -and I trust some 

 of the physicists may be found to admit its importance and 

 examine into it. — Believe me yours very sincerely, 



Alfred B. Wallace. 



To Miss Buckley 



Holly House, Barking, E. December 25, 1870. 



Dear Miss Buckley, — . . . You did not hear Mrs. 

 Hardinge' on very favourable topics, and I hope you will 

 hear her often again, and especially hear one of her 

 regular discourses. I think, however, from what you 

 heard, that, setting aside all idea of her being more than 

 a mere spiritualist lecturer setting forth the ideas and 



» Considerable reference is made to Mrs. Hardinge in " Miracles and Modern 

 Spiritualism" pp. 117-21. 



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