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I shall send you the MS. of the Evolution of Theology 

 to-day or to-morrow. It will not do to divide it, as I 

 want the reader to have an apergu of the whole process 

 from Samuel of Israel to Sammy of Oxford. 



I am afraid it will make thirty or thirty-five pages, 

 but it is really very interesting, though I say it as 

 shouldn't. 



Please have it set up in slip, though, as it is written 

 after the manner of a judge's charge, the corrections will 

 not be so extensive, nor the strength of language so well 

 calculated to make a judicious editor's hair stand on end, 

 as was the case with the enclosed (in its unregenerate 

 state). Ever yours very truly, T. H. HUXLEY. 



Some time later, on September 14, 1890, writing 

 to Mr. Hyde Clarke, the philologist, who was ten 

 years his senior, he remarks on his object in under- 

 taking this controversy : 



I am glad to see that you are as active-minded as ever. 

 I have no doubt there is a great deal in what you say 

 about the origin of the myths in Genesis. But my sole 

 point is to get the people who persist in regarding them 

 as statements of fact to understand that they are fools. 



The process is laborious, and not yet very fruitful of 

 the desired conviction. 



To SIR JOSEPH PRESTWICH 



4 MARLBOROITGH PLACE, N.W., 

 January 16, 1886. 



MY DEAR PRESTWICH Accept my best thanks for the 

 volume of your Geology, which has just reached me. 



I envy the vigour which has led you to tackle such 

 a task, and I have no doubt that when I turn to your 

 book for information I shall find reason for more envy in 

 the thoroughness with which the task is done. 



