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

Science and culture and other essays (T. H. Huxley 1881) contained the address ‘On the hypothesis that animals are automata, and its history’ (T. H. Huxley 1874). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down.

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0.1 (Railway … S.E.R.)] parentheses added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13612,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13612