As to B, I rather think there were people who fought the fallacy of language being a test of race before Broca—­among them thy servant—­who got into considerable hot water on that subject for a lecture on the forefathers and forerunners of the English people, delivered in 1870.  Taylor says that Cuno was the first to insist upon the proposition that race is not co-extensive with language in 1871.  That is all stuff.  The same thesis had been maintained before I took it up, but I cannot remember by whom. [Cp. letter to Max Muller of June 15, 1865 volume 1.]

Won’t you refer to the Blackmore Museum?  I was very much struck with it when at Salisbury the other day.

Hope they gave you a better lunch at Gloucester than we did here.  We’ll treat you better next time in our own den.  With the wife’s kindest regards.

Ever yours very faithfully,

T.H.  Huxley.

[The remark in a preceding letter about “Gladstone, Gore, and Co.” turned out to be prophetic as well as retrospective.  Mr. Gladstone published this autumn in “Good Words” his “Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture,” containing an attack upon Huxley’s position as taken up in their previous controversy of 1889.

The debate now turned upon the story of the Gadarene swine.  The question at issue was not, at first sight, one of vital importance, and one critic at least remarked that at their age Mr. Gladstone and Professor Huxley might be better occupied than in fighting over the Gadarene pigs:—­]

If these too famous swine were the only parties to the suit, I for my part (writes Huxley, “Collected Essays” 5 414) should fully admit the justice of the rebuke.  But the real issue (he contends) is whether the men of the nineteenth century are to adopt the demonology of the men of the first century, as divinely revealed truth, or to reject it as degrading falsity.

[A lively encounter followed:—­]

The G.O.M. is not murdered [he writes on November 20], only “fillipped with a three-man beetle,” as the fat knight has it.

[This refers to the forthcoming article in the December “Nineteenth Century”, “The Keepers of the Herd of Swine,” which was followed in March 1891 by “Mr. Gladstone’s Controversial Methods” (see “Collected Essays” 5 366 sqq.), the rejoinder to Mr. Gladstone’s reply in February.

The scope of this controversy was enlarged by the intervention in the January “Nineteenth Century” of the Duke of Argyll, to whom he devoted the concluding paragraphs of his March article.  But it was scarcely well under way when another, accompanied by much greater effusion of ink and passion, sprang up in the columns of the “Times”.  His share in it, published in 1891 as a pamphlet under the title of “Social Diseases and Worse Remedies,” is to be found in “Collected Essays” 9 237.]

I have a new row on hand in re Salvation Army! [he writes on December 2].  It’s all Mrs. —­’s fault; she offered the money.