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LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY chap, xv 



I am always glad to hear of and from you, but I have not 

 been idle long enough to forget what being busy means, so don't 

 let your conscience worry you about answering my letters. 



... X. is, I am afraid, more or less of an ass. The opposi- 

 tion he and his friends have been making to the Technical Bill 

 is quite unintelligible to me. Y. may be, and I rather think is, 

 a knave, but he is no fool ; and if I mistake not he is minded to 

 kick the ultra-radical stool down now that he has mounted by 

 it. Make friends of that Mammon of unrighteousness and 

 swamp the sentimentalists. 



... I despise your insinuations. All my friends here have 

 been theological — Bishop, Chief Rabbi, and Catholic Professor. 

 None of your Maybrick discussors. 



On June 25 he wrote to Professor Ray Lankester, en- 

 closing a letter to be read at a meeting called by the Lord 

 Mayor, on July 1, to hear statements from men of science 

 with regard to the recent increase of rabies in this country, 

 and the efficiency of the treatment discovered by M. Pasteur 

 for the prevention of hydrophobia. 



I quote the latter from the report in Nature for July 4 : — 



Monte Gexeroso, Tessin, Suisse, June 25, 1S89. 



My dear Lankester — I inclose herewith a letter for the 

 Lord Mayor and a cheque for £5 as my subscription. I wish I 

 could make the letter shorter, but it is pretty much " pemmican " 

 already. However, it does not much matter being read if it only 

 gets into print. 



It is uncommonly good of the Lord M ayor to stand up for 

 Science, in the teeth of the row the anti-vivisection pack — dogs 

 and doggesses — are making. 



May his shadow never be less. 



We shall be off to the Maloja at the end of this week, if the 

 weather mends. Thunderstorms here every day, and sometimes 

 two or three a day for the last ten days. — Ever yours very faith- 

 fully, T. H. Huxley. 



Monte Generoso, Switzerland, June 25, 1889. 

 My Lord Mayor — I greatly regret my inability to be present 

 at the meeting which is to be held, under your Lordship's 

 auspices, in reference to M. Pasteur and his Institute. The un- 

 remitting labours of that eminent Frenchman during the last 

 half-century have yielded rich harvests of new truths, and are 



