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tion this concurrence of damnatory evidence was 

 already extant ? 



I have nothing to say about Mr. Booth person- 

 ally, for I know nothing. On that subject, as on 

 several others, I profess myself an agnostic. But, 

 if he is, a& he may be, a saint actuated by the 

 purest of motives, he is not the first saint who, 

 as you have said, has shown himself " in the 

 ardour of prosecuting a well-meant object" to 

 be capable of overlooking " the plain maxims of 

 every-day morality." If I were a Salvationist 

 soldier, I should cry with Othello, " Cassio, I love 

 thee ; but never more be officer of mine." 



I am. Sir, your obedient servant, 



T. H. Huxley. 



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The " Times;' Deeemher 2Wi, 1890 



Sir, — If I have any strong points, finance is 

 certainly not one of them. But the financial, or 

 rather fiscal, operations of the General of the 

 Salvation Army, as they are set forth and 

 exemplified in " The New Papacy," possess that 

 grand simplicity which is the mark of genius ; 



