With regard to this article and a further project of extending his discussion of the subject, he writes:—­]

3 Jevington Gardens, Eastbourne, December 14, 1889.

My dear Knowles,

I am very glad you think the article will go.  It is longer than I intended, but I cannot accuse myself of having wasted words, and I have left out several things that might have been said, but which can come in by and by.

As to title, do as you like, but that you propose does not seem to me quite to hit the mark.  “Political Humbug:  Liberty and Equality,” struck me as adequate, but my wife declares it is improper.  “Political Fictions” might be supposed to refer to Dizzie’s novels!  How about “The Politics of the Imagination:  Liberty and Inequality”?

I should like to have some general title that would do for the “letters” which I see I shall have to write.  I think I will make six of them after the fashion of my “Working Men’s Lectures,” as thus:  (1) Liberty and Equality; (2) Rights of Man; (3) Property; (4) Malthus; (5) Government, the province of the State; (6) Law-making and Law-breaking.

I understand you will let me republish them, as soon as the last is out, in a cheap form.  I am not sure I will not put them in the form of “Lectures” rather than “Letters.”

Did you ever read Henry George’s book “Progress and Poverty”?  It is more damneder nonsense than poor Rousseau’s blether.  And to think of the popularity of the book!  But I ought to be grateful, as I can cut and come again at this wonderful dish.

The mischief of it is I do not see how I am to finish the introduction to my Essays, unless I put off sending you a second dose until March.

I will send back the revise as quickly as possible.

Ever yours very truly,

T.H.  Huxley.

You do not tell me that there is anything to which Spencer can object, so I suppose there is nothing.

[And in an undated letter to Sir J. Hooker, he says:—­]

I am glad you think well of the “Human Inequality” paper.  My wife has persuaded me to follow it up with a view to making a sort of “Primer of Politics” for the masses—­by and by.  “There’s no telling what you may come to, my boy,” said the Bishop who reproved his son for staring at John Kemble, and I may be a pamphleteer yet!  But really it is time that somebody should treat the people to common sense.

[However, immediately after the appearance of this first article on Human Inequality, he changed his mind about the Letters to Working Men, and resolved to continue what he had to say in the form of essays in the “Nineteenth Century”.