The Scientific Aspects of Positivism, within The Fortnightly Review, vol. 11, issue 30

The Scientific Aspects of Positivism, within The Fortnightly Review, vol. 11, issue 30

Huxley, Thomas Henry

London: Virtue & Co., 1869. The Fortnightly Review, vol. 11, issue 30, 1869-06-01, pp. 653-70

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1869

George Eliot to Mrs. Richard Congreve, 4 May 1869. “The ‘Fortnightly’ lay uncut at Mr Trollope's, and Mr Lewes had nothing more pressing to do than to cut it open at the reply to Professor Huxley. He presently came to me, and said it was excellent. It delighted him the more because he had just before, at Rome, alighted on the ‘Pall Mall’ account of the article, which falsely represented it as entirely apologetic. At the first spare moment I plunged into an easy-chair, and read, with thorough satisfaction in the admirable temper and the force of the reply. We intend to start for Calais this evening; and as the rain prevents us from doing anything agreeable out of doors, I have nothing to hinder me from sitting, with my knees up to my chin, and scribbling, now that I am become a little sounder in head and in body generally than beautiful Italy allowed me to be. As beautiful as ever -- more beautiful -- it has looked to me on this last visit; and it is the fault of my physique if it did not agree with me. Pray offer my warmest sympathy to Dr Congreve in the anxieties of his difficult task. What hard work it seems to go on living sometimes! Blessed are the dead.” GEL 5: 26

Huxley, Thomas Henry, The Scientific Aspects of Positivism, within The Fortnightly Review, vol. 11, issue 30, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57615

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