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Now be a sane man and take my advice. Ever yours 

 very faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



at the Society 01 Arts, on the very unpromising subject of technical 

 education ; but we believe that if Professor Huxley were to become 

 the President of the Social Science Association, or of the Inter- 

 national Statistical Congress, he would still be amusing, so much 

 bottled life does he infuse into the driest topic on which human 

 beings ever contrived to prose." 



