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now, and your book is very readable, to say nothing of 

 its higher qualities. 



My wife (who sends her kindest greetings) and I were 

 charmed with the photograph. [As for our] publication 

 in that direction, the seven volumes are growing into 

 stately folios. You would not know them. Ever yours 

 very faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



How will you read this scrawl now that Gegenbaur is 

 gone? 



In the article here referred to, a review of a book 

 by Prof. Gr. H. Darwin, a personal attack of an 

 unjustifiable character was made upon him, and 

 through him, upon Charles Darwin. The authorship 

 of the review in question had come to be known, and 

 Huxley writes to his friend : 



I entirely sympathise with your feeling about the 

 attack on George. If anybody tries that on with my boy 

 L., the old wolf will show all the fangs he has left by 

 that time, depend upon it. ... 



You ought to be like one of the blessed gods of 

 Elysium, and let the inferior deities do battle with the 

 infernal powers. Moreover, the severest and most effectual 

 punishment for this sort of moral assassination is quietly 

 f .o ignore the offender and give him the cold shoulder. 

 He knows why he gets it, and society comes to know 

 why, and though society is more or less of a dunderhead, 

 it has honourable instincts, and the man in the cold 

 finds no cloak that will cover him. 



