PROFESSOR HUXLEY'S LECTURES.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "EPECTATOR.1
Sin,—In the last number of the Spectator strong objection is taken to certain opinions which are ascribed to me, on the evidence of a report of a lecture which I delivered in Edinburgh in the evening of last Sunday week.
As the lecture itself will, I hope, be accessible before long to all who care to read it, I will trouble you with no further reply to your criticisms than the assurance that, to a very considerable extent, I agree with them, and that the opinions you ascribe to me are, to my mind, quite as absurd as they are to yours.
May I be permitted to add that you usually deal so very kindly and considerately with me, that the fact that you had based so- formidable an attack upon what is characterized by yourself as an " evidently very imperfect statement " of what I said—surprised [We thought we had carefully expressed our distrust of those statements which seemed to us incredible as part of Professor Huxley's creed. If we did impute to him, on the authority of time Scotsman, what he does not hold, we are very sorry, and will take care to let it be known.—En. Spectator.]
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