Thomas Common, Esq.
Hodeslea, August 31, 1894.
Dear Professor Seth,
I have come to a stop in the issue of my essays for the present, and I venture to ask your acceptance of the set which I have desired my publishers to send you.
I hope that at present you are away somewhere, reading novels or otherwise idling, in whatever may be your pet fashion.
But some day I want you to read the "Prolegomena" to the reprinted
Romanes Lecture.
Lately I have been re-reading Spinoza (much read and little understood in my youth).
But that noblest of Jews must have planted no end of germs in my brains, for I see that what I have to say is in principle what he had to say, in modern language.
Ever yours very faithfully,
T.H. Huxley.