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intellect from sense, he is the man for whom I have been 

 waiting, as Kant says. 



In your paper about scientific freedom, which I read 

 some time ago with much interest, you alluded to a book 

 or article by Father Eoberts on the Galileo business. Will 

 you kindly send me a postcard to say where and when it 

 was published. 



I looked into the matter when I was in Italy, and I 

 arrived at the conclusion that the Pope and the College of 

 Cardinals had rather the best of it. It would complete 

 the paradox if Father Eoberts should help me to see the 

 error of my ways. Ever yours very faithfully, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



August and September, as said above, were spent 

 in England, though with little good effect. Filey was 

 not a success for either himself or his wife. Bourne- 

 mouth, where they joined their eldest daughter and 

 her family, offered a "temperature much more to the 

 taste of both of us," and at least undid the mischief 

 done by the wet and cold of the north. 



The mean line of health was gradually rising ; it 

 was a great relief to be free at length from ad- 

 ministrative distractions, while the retiring pensions 

 removed the necessity of daily toil By nature he 

 was like the friend whom he described as " the man 

 to become hipped to death without incessant activity 

 of some sort or other. I am sure that the habit of 

 incessant work into which we all drift is as bad in 

 its way as dram-drinking. In time you cannot be 

 comfortable without the stimulus." But the variety 

 of interests which filled his mind prevented him from 

 feeling the void of inaction after a busy life. And 



