A young relation of mine, slightly deaf, was sorely put to it in an
University examination because one of his examiners was _secretal_ in
this way.
I will not trouble you further except to express, with misgiving, a
doubt on a single point, the final _f_.
In driving with Lord Granville, who was deaf but not very deaf, I had
occasion to mention to him the Duke of _Fife_, I used every effort, but
in no way could I contrive to make him hear the word.
I break my word to add one other particular. Out of 27,000 odd lines in
Homer, every one of them expressed, in a sense, heavy weight or force;
the blows of heavy-armed men on the breastplates of foes ... [illegible]
and the like.--With many thanks, I remain yours very faithfully,
W.E. GLADSTONE.
P.S.--I should say that the efficacy of lip-expression, undeniably, is
most subtle, and defies definite description.
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TO DR. ARCHDALL REID
_Parkstone, Dorset. April 19, 1896._
Dear Sir,--I am sorry I had not space to refer more fully to your
interesting work.[27] The most important point on which I think your
views require emendation is on _instinct_. I see you quote Spalding's
experiments, but these have been quite superseded and shown to be
seriously incorrect by Prof. Lloyd Morgan. A paper by him in the
_Fortnightly Review_ of August, 1893, gives an account of his
experiments, and he read a paper on the same subject at the British
Association last year.
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