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your readers. It comes from an essay by Professor Huxley,

and was quoted in the Times of February 28th, 1913 :- "Undoubtedly your gutter childmay be converted by more intellectual drill into the subtlest of all the beasts of the field ; but we know what has become of the original of that description, and there is no need to increase the number of those who imitate him successfully without being aided by the rates ; and if I wore compelled to choose, for one of my own children, between a school in which real religious instruction is given and one without it, I should prefer the former, even though the child might have to take a good deal of theology with it."

—I am, Sir, &c., L. D.