To T. H. Huxley 12 January 1882
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
Jan 12th 1882
My dear Huxley,
Very many thanks for Science & Culture, & I am sure that I shall read most of the Essays with much interest. With respect to Automatism, I wish that you could review yourself in the old, & of course forgotten, trenchant style, & then you would have answer yourself with equal inciseness; & thus by Jove you might go on ad infinitum to the joy & instruction of the world.1
Ever yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1874a. On the hypothesis that animals are automata, and its history. Fortnightly Review n.s. 16: 555–80.
Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1881. Science and culture, and other essays. London: Macmillan and Co.
Summary
Thanks for Science and culture [1881].
Refers to "Automatism" ["On the hypothesis that animals are automata"], wishing THH could review himself and answer himself and thus go on ad infinitum to the joy and instruction of the world.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13612
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 370)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13612,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13612.xml
