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letter, I gave no vague warning of what might grow out of the 

 organized force, drilled in the habit of unhesitating obedience, 

 which he has created." 



Allusion has already been made (cf. p. 202) to the 

 Introductory Essay on " The Struggle for Existence in 

 Human Society," prefixed to the reprinted letters. 



Some of Huxley's Essays on Education were translated 

 into French during 1891, and published under the title 

 of Les Sciences Naturelles et £ Education, he himself contri- 

 buting a preface. The French edition of " Man's Place in 

 Nature " (La Place de F Homme dam la Nature), which had 

 appeared more than a score of years previously, was also 

 re-issued, together with translations by H. de Varigny 

 of three ethnological essays. A letter to the trans- 

 lator (dated May 17, 1891) contains the following 

 paragraph : — 



" I am quite conscious that the condensed and idiomatic 

 English into which I always try to put my thoughts, must 

 present many difficulties to a translator. But a friend of mine 

 who is a much better French scholar than I am, and who looked 

 over two or three of the essays, told me he thought you had been 

 remarkably successful (Life, ii, pp. 290-1). 



Another quotation from the same letter has been given 

 elsewhere (cf. p. 23). 



Mention has already been made, in several places, of 

 Huxley's devotion to the mother tongue he handled in so 

 masterly a fashion, and on the teaching of which he held 

 very strong views. These find expression in a letter to 

 the Pall Mall Gazette (October 22, 1891), the occasion 

 being the establishment of a Chair in the University of 

 Oxford, nominally of English Literature, really of 

 Middle English Philology. Here he states his con- 

 viction : — 



