William Allingham, a diary . e can set the immeasurableSpace around us and its innumerable Worlds. C.— I care very little about the stars. I lookround upon my fellow-creatures. W. A.— But the multitude of mighty Globes is aphysical fact, as much as any other. C.— Yes (letting the subject drop). Again he resumed. One thing Browning told methe other day was a saying of Huxleys, In thebeginning was hydrogen. Any man who spoke thus inmy presence I would request to be silent— No more ofthat stuff, sir, to me! (angrily). If you persevere Iwill take means, such as are in my power, to get quit ofyou w
William Allingham, a diary . e can set the immeasurableSpace around us and its innumerable Worlds. C.— I care very little about the stars. I lookround upon my fellow-creatures. W. A.— But the multitude of mighty Globes is aphysical fact, as much as any other. C.— Yes (letting the subject drop). Again he resumed. One thing Browning told methe other day was a saying of Huxleys, In thebeginning was hydrogen. Any man who spoke thus inmy presence I would request to be silent— No more ofthat stuff, sir, to me! (angrily). If you persevere Iwill take means, such as are in my power, to get quit ofyou without delay. To Carlyles. Mr. Paul Friedmann. We threedrove out. Talk on Prussian affairs, and especiallyBismarck, whom F. thinks a despot. I was surprisedat not coming forward to defend the Chancellor,but he seems to have got fresh lights on characterlately. He remarked, I hear he is a terrible fellow ateating and drinking. F. confirmed this, adding hesays himself he never gets drunk, but his friends do not. 1878 LONDON 271 say so. The book of conversations with secretary,just pubhshed, was mentioned. I asked, was itauthentic ^ Oh yes, it could not have been publishedwithout full consent. His object is to keep himselfbefore the public We then spoke of Morganatic marriages, on which copious and apparently accurate information. Hesaid the ceremony is in no way peculiar, (he never heardof the left hand being used) nor the status of the wife : theonly difference being in the succession of the children. C. and F. entirely agreed with me as to the absurdityof writing histories of centuries, or of treating thoseartificial sections as real. The practice is very of reigns, of great wars, or of famous person-ages, were the usual forms of writing. C. often declared that the driver was going wrong—at last thrust his head suddenly out of the window, androared Where in the Devils Grandmothers name areyou going ? Carlyle has allowed Helen to
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