After all, the reproach made to the English people that "they care for nothing but religion and politics" is rather to their credit. In the long run these are the two things that ought to interest a man more than any others.
I have been much bothered with ear-ache lately, but if all goes well I will send you a screed by the middle of March.
Snowing hard! They have had more snow within the last month than they have known for ten years here.
Ever yours faithfully,
T.H. Huxley.
[He set to work immediately, and within ten days despatched his second contribution, "Agnosticism, a Rejoinder," which appeared in the April number of the "Nineteenth Century".
On March 3 he writes:—]
I am possessed by a writing demon, and have pretty well finished in the rough another article for Knowles, whose mouth is wide open for it.
[And on the 9th:—]
I sent off another article to Knowles last night—a regular facer for the clericals. You can't think how I enjoy writing now for the first time in my life.