24 APRIL 1869, Page 15

PROFESSOR HUXLEY.

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:1

SIN—As my letter criticizing Professor Huxley's Edinburgh address has been once or twice alluded to by other correspondents, perhaps I may be allowed to add the final sentence which, as as you may remember, a postal mishap prevented me from appendmg to the proof ?— " And this indisposition to accept Professor Huxley's dictum as to spiritual facts springs from no low estimate of his own individual character, but simply from the fact that he is a student, an earnest one ; and the student life, though one of the noblest that a man can lead, has always been in danger of biassing the judgment of its followers, and making them imagine the facts about which they are especially busied, to be of more importance than all other facts in the world besides."

I will also correct a slight mistake in my signature, and subscribe myself yours obediently (not J., but) Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 20, 1869. T. H.