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of showing him some civility by asking him to join a pic- 

 nic at Weybridge that I gave this year to some dozen or 

 more friends (as I did also last year). He seemed to en- 

 joy it much, and is, as I gather, enjoying his stay here 

 greatly. He is evidently doing very careful work in the 

 preparation of his monographs on these fossil types and 

 promises to do good service for us. 



How are you bearing the heat ? I see from the accounts 

 that in America people have been suffering greatly. You 

 ought to get away to some bracing seaside place, and both 

 escape the heat and take some rest, lolling about on the 

 sands and cultivating idleness. There is one part of culture 

 which it seems to me you have not duly regarded and which 

 I commend to you, namely, the culture of passive recep- 

 tivity in respect of surrounding impressions that kind of 

 mood of mind which takes its enjoyment in lying on the 

 grass on a sunny day looking up through the trees. 



If you happen to get hold of a newly published work 

 entitled The People of Turkey, by a Consul's Daughter, 

 you will find in Volume II, pages 200-202, a passage that 

 will interest you. It gives an account of a school estab- 

 lished and carried on by an intelligent Greek who, educated 

 in Germany, is founding his system of teaching upon my 

 books ; and you will find it stated that his methods, having 

 proved successful, " will eventually be adopted in all the 

 educational establishments of the Greeks." It is curious 

 to find that people in Greece, as well as in Russia, both of 

 which places we regard as in so uncivilized a state, are 

 showing themselves so much more receptive than Western 

 people. 



You do not say anything about coming over to the meet- 

 ings of the association. Depend upon it, a sea voyage 

 would, as before, do you a great deal of good, and probably 

 be in the end an economy of time. 



