1894 LETTERS 



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Species which are peculiarly Darwinian were swept away, the 

 theory of the evolution of animals and plants would not be in 

 the slightest degree shaken. 



The strain of this single effort was considerable : " I am 

 frightfully tired," he wrote on August 11, "but the game 

 was worth the candle." 



Letters to Sir J. D. Hooker and to Professor Lewis 

 Campbell contain his own account of the affair. The refer- 

 ence in the latter to the priests is in reply to Professor 

 Campbell's story of one of Jowett's last sayings. They had 

 been talking of the collective power of the priesthood to 

 resist the introduction of new ideas ; a long pause ensued, 

 and the old man seemed to have slipped off into a doze, 

 when he suddenly broke the silence by saying, " The priests 

 will always be too many for you." 



The Spa, Tuneridge Wells, Aug. 12, 1894. 



My dear Hooker — I wish, as everybody wished, you had 

 been with us on Wednesday evening at Oxford when we settled 

 accounts for i860, and got a receipt in full from the Chancellor 

 of the University, President of the Association, and representa- 

 tive of ecclesiastical conservatism and orthodoxy. 



I was officially asked to second the vote of thanks for the 

 address, and got a copy of it the night before — luckily — for it 

 was a kittle business. . 



It was very queer to sit there and hear the doctrines you and 

 I were damned for advocating thirty-four years ago at Oxford, 

 enunciated as matters of course — disputed by no reasonable 

 man ! — in the Sheldonian Theatre by the Chancellor. . . . 



Of course there is not much left of me, and it will take a 

 fortnight's quiet at Eastbourne (whither we return on Tuesday 

 next) to get right. But it was a pleasant last flare-up in the 

 socket ! 



With our love to you both — Ever yours affectionately, 



T. H. Huxley. 



HODESLEA, Aug. l8, I894. 



My dear Campbell — I am setting you a good example. You 

 and I are really too old friends to go on wasting ink in honorary 

 prefixes. 



I had a very difficult task at Oxford. The old Adam, of 

 course, prompted the tearing of the address to pieces, which 

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