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have been either produced by overapplication or made 

 worse by it. Pray be a little more economical of yourself. 

 Even with a view to the most efficient propagation of the 

 ideas in which you are interested, it is needful that you 

 should be more moderate in your exertions. A breakdown 

 in health entails more loss of time than all those minor 

 losses that may result from taking work somewhat more 

 easily. My own case may serve you as a demonstration. 



You say, " So you see things are slowly moving along." 

 It seems to me rather that they are moving along with 

 great rapidity. If I could describe them as moving with an 

 equal " slowness " on this side the water I should be quite 

 satisfied. The rapidity with which you are proposing to 

 bring out the successive reprints is indeed rather startling 

 to me, since I had understood that the results of the pub- 

 lication of this first volume were to determine the steps to 

 be taken with respect to the others. I hope I may ration- 

 ally infer that the promptitude with which the others are to 

 be brought out is an indication that the prospects are good. 

 It may indeed be not a bad policy to bring out the volumes 

 in rapid succession. The result will no doubt be to keep 

 up and deepen the interest more decidedly than a slow suc- 

 cession would do. 



I was amused and pleased with your skilful generalship 

 with respect to the criticism in the Tribune, especially as 

 the diminished antagonism of the literary editor has been 

 one of its accompaniments. 



Respecting Social Statics, I gave you a somewhat wrong 

 impression if you gathered from me that I had receded from 

 any of its main principles. The parts which I had in view 

 when I spoke of having modified my opinions on some 

 points were chiefly the chapters on the rights of women and 

 children. I should probably also somewhat qualify the 

 theological form of expression used in some of the earlier 

 chapters. But the essentials of the book would remain as 



