2l8 HUXLEY 



and bracketed him with Owen and Bishop Wilber- 

 force as belonging " to a very curious type of human- 

 ity, with many excellent and even great qualities, and 

 one fatal defect — utter untrustworthiness." l It is in- 

 teresting to note here that in a conversation with Mr. 

 Lionel Tollemache, Mr. Gladstone " denied genius to 

 Huxley, but allowed it to Owen and Romanes " ! 2 



Among the outside criticisms which the controversy 

 provoked was that which suggested that both dispu- 

 tants u might be better occupied than in fighting over 

 the Gadarene pigs." Upon this Huxley pertinently 

 commented : — 



If these too famous swine were the only parties to 

 the suit, I, for my part, should fully admit the justice 

 of the rebuke. But, under the beneficent rule of the 

 Court of Chancery, in former times, it was not un- 

 common that a quarrel about a few perches of worth- 

 less land ended in the ruin of ancient families and the 

 engulfing of great estates ; and I think that our ad- 

 monisher failed to observe the analogy — to note the 

 momentous consequences of the judgment which may 

 be awarded in the present apparently insignificant 

 action in re the swineherds of Gadara. 



The immediate effect of such judgment will be the 

 decision of the question, whether the men of the nine- 

 teenth century are to adopt the demonology of the 



1889, Huxley says : " Gladstone's attack on you is one of the best 

 things he has written. I do not think there is more than fifty per 

 cent, more verbiage than is necessary, nor any sentence with more 

 than two meanings." — Literary Guide, December, 190 1. 



1 II. 341. 2 Talks with Mr. Gladstone. 



