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3 Jevington Gardens, Eastbourne, 

 March 15, 1889. 



My dear Knowles — I am sending my proof back to Spottis- 

 woode's. I did not think the MS. would make so much, and I 

 am afraid it has lengthened in the process of correction. 



You have a reader in your printer's office who provides me 

 with jokes. Last time he corrected, where my MS. spoke of the 

 pigs as unwilling " porters " of the devils, into " porkers." And 

 this time, when I, writing about the Lord's Prayer, say " cur- 

 rent formula," he has it " canting formula." If only Peterbor- 

 ough had got hold of that ! And I am capable of overlooking 

 anything in a proof. 



You see we have got to big questions now, and if these are 

 once fairly before the general mind all the King's horses and 

 all the King's men won't put the orthodox Humpty Dumpty 

 where he was before. — Ever yours very faithfully, 



T. H. Huxley. 



After the article came out he wrote again to Mr. 

 Knowles : — 



4 Marlborough Place, N.W., April 14, 1889. 



My dear Knowles — I am going to try and stop here, deso- 

 late as the house is now all the chicks have flown, for the next 

 fortnight. Your talk of the inclemency of Torquay is delight- 

 fully consoling. London has been vile. 



I am glad you are going to let Wace have another " go." 

 My object, as you know, in the whole business has been to rouse 

 people to think. . . . 



Considering that I got named in the House of Commons 

 last night as an example of a temperate and well-behaved blas- 

 phemer,* I think I am attaining my object. 



Of course I go for a last word, and I am inclined to think 

 that whatever Wace may say, it may be best to get out of the 

 region of controversy as far as possible and hammer in two big 

 nails — (1) that the Demonology of Christianity shows that its 

 founders knew no more about the spiritual world than anybody 

 else, and (2) that Newman's doctrine of "Development" is 

 true to an extent of which the Cardinal did not dream. 



* In the debate upon the Religious Prosecutions Abolition Bill, 

 Mr. Addison said "the last article by Professor Huxley in the Nine- 

 teenth Century showed that opinion was free when it was honestly 

 expressed."- — Times, April 14. 



