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work, and seemed to myself to have got at the heart of 

 Hume's way of thinking, I could not tell how it would 

 appear to others, still less could I pretend to judge of the 

 literary form of what I had written. And as I was 

 quite prepared to accept your judgment if it had been 

 unfavourable, so being what it is, I hug myself pro- 

 portionately and begin to give myself airs as a man of 

 letters. 



I am through all the interesting part of Hume's life 

 that is, the struggling part of it and David the 

 successful and the feted begins rather to bore me, as I am 

 sorry to say most successful people do. I hope to send 

 the first chapter to press in another week. 



Might it not be better, by the way, to divide the little 

 book into two parts ? 



Part I. Life, Literary and Political work, 



Part II. Philosophy, 



subdividing the latter into chapters or sections ? Please 

 tell me what you think. 



I have not received the last chapter from the printer 

 yet. When I do I will finish revising, and then ask you 

 to come and have a symposium over it. Ever yours 

 very faithfully, T. H. HUXLEY. 



P.S. Macmillan has a lien on " The Hand." I gave 

 part of the lecture in another shape at Glasgow two years 

 ago, and M. had it reported for his magazine. If he is 

 good and patient he will get it in some shape some day ! 



4 MARLBOROUGH PLACE, N.W., 

 Nov. 5, 1878. 



MY DEAR MOELEY " Davie's " philosophy is now all 

 in print, and all but a few final pages of his biography. 



So I think the time has come when that little critical 

 symposium may take place. 



Can you come and dine on Tuesday next (12) at 7 ? 

 Or if any day except Wednesday 15th, next week, will 



