94 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. Ill 



"to express in some way more emphatic than by 

 words, my sense of the many kindnesses I have 

 received at your hands during the twenty years of 

 our friendship. Remembrance of the things you 

 have done in furtherance of my aims, and of the 

 invaluable critical aid you have given me, with so 

 much patience and at so much cost of time, has often 

 made me feel how much I owe you." 



After a generous reference to occasions when the 

 warmth of debate might have betrayed him into 

 more vigorous expressions than he intended, he 

 concludes : 



But inadequately as I may ordinarily show it, you 

 will (knowing that I am tolerably candid) believe me 

 when I say that there is no one whose judgment on all 

 subjects I so much respect, or whose friendship I so highly 

 value. 



It may be remembered that the 1872 address on 

 " Administrative Nihilism " led to a reply from the 

 pen of Mr. Spencer, as the champion of Individualism. 

 When my father sent him the volume in which this 

 address was printed, he wrote back a letter (Sept. 29, 

 1873) which is characterised by the same feeling. It 

 expresses his thanks for the book, " and many more 

 for the kind expression of feeling in the preface. If 

 you had intended to set an example to the Philistines 

 of the way in which controversial differences may be 

 maintained without any decrease of sympathy, you 

 could not have done it more perfectly." 



In connection with the building of the house, 



