[Here also stand two letters to Lord Farrer, one before, the other after, his address at the Statistical Society on the Relations between Morals, Economics and Statistics, which touch on several philosophical and social questions, always, to his mind, intimately connected, and wherein wrong modes of thought indubitably lead to wrong modes of action. Noteworthy is a defence of the fundamental method of Political Economy, however much its limitations might be forgotten by some of its exponents. The reference to the Church agitation to introduce dogmatic teaching into the elementary schools has also a lasting interest.] Hodeslea, November 6, 1894. My dear Farrer, Whenever you get over the optimism of your youthful constitution (I wish I were endowed with that blessing) you will see that the Gospels and I are right about the Devil being "Prince" (note the distinction--not "king") of the Cosmos. The a priori road to scientific, political, and all other doctrine is H.R.H. Satan's invention--it is the intellectual, broad, and easy path which leadeth to Jehannum. The king's road is the strait path of painful observation and experiment, and few they be that enter thereon. R.G. Latham, queerest of men, had singular flashes of insight now and then. Forty years ago he gravely told me that the existence of the Established Church was to his mind one of the best evidences of the recency of the evolution of the human type from the simian. How much there is to confirm this view in present public opinion and the intellectual character of those who influence it! It explains all your difficulties at once, and I regret that I do not seem to have mentioned it at any of those mid-day symposia which were so pleasant when you and I were younger. Ever yours very faithfully, T.H. Huxley. P.S.--Apropos of Athelstan Riley and his friends--I fool rather obliged to them. I assented to the compromise (1) because I felt that English opinion would not let us have the education of the masses at any cheaper price; (2) because, with the Bible in lay hands, I was satisfied that the teaching from it would gradually become modified into harmony with common sense. I do not doubt that this is exactly what has happened, and is the ground of the alarm of the orthodox. But I do not repent of the compromise in the least. Twenty years of reasonably good primary education is "worth a mass." Moreover the Diggleites stand to lose anyhow, and they will lose most completely and finally if they win at the elections this month. So I am rather inclined to hope they may. Hodeslea, Staveley Road, Eastbourne, November 3, 1894. My dear Mr. Clodd, They say that the first thing an Englishman does when he is hard up for money is to abstain from buying books. The first thing I do when I am liver-y, lumbagy, and generally short of energy, is to abstain from answering letters. And I am only just emerging from a good many weeks of that sort of flabbiness and poverty.