LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
PROFESSOR IIUXLEY.—A CORRECTION.
[To TDB EDITOR OF Till " SPRCTATUR.1 Silt,—You were good enough to insert in the Spectator o last week a letter of mine commenting on your correspondent "J. IL's" criticisms of Professor Huxley's opinions on the law of causation, and expressing my concurrence with the views of your correspondent. Since then my attention has been called to the fact that I have, misled by the inverted commas in your correspondent's letter, quoted, as Professor Huxley's own words, a passage which in truth only professes to sum up his opinion on the law of cause and effect, and which does not occur in his important paper on " The Physical Basis of Life." "J. H." has prefaced his statement of the learned professor's opinions with the words "He sop., in effect," which escaped my attention ; then follows the passage between inverted commas which I mistook for a quotation and copied, committing the grave literary error of quoting at second-band. As the greatest accuracy is desirable in philosophical controversy, and my mistake may mislead some of your readers, I will ask you
to insert this correction.—I am, Sir, &c., A. R.
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