I wish that you could explain why certain curved lines and symmetrical figures give pleasure.

But will not your brother artists scorn you for showing yourself so good an evolutionist?
Perhaps they will say that allowance must be made for him, as he has allied himself to so dreadful a man as Huxley.

This reminds me that I have just been reading the last volume of essays.

By good luck I had not read that on Priestley (312/1.
"Science and Culture, and other Essays": London, 1881.

The fifth Essay is on Joseph Priestley (page 94).), and it strikes me as the most splendid essay which I ever read.