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about the possible duty of offering myself for the<br />

Hulsean Professorship at Cambridge. I had little<br />

wish, and no hope, for success, but I was inclined<br />

to protest against the imputations of heresy and the<br />

like which have been made against me.”[29]<br />

Hort writes to Mr. A. Macmillan:<br />

“About Darwin, I have been reading and<br />

thinking a good deal, and am getting to see my way<br />

comparatively clearly, and to be also more desirous<br />

to say something.”[30]<br />

Hort writes to Westcott:<br />

“You seem to me to make (Greek) philosophy<br />

worthless for those who have received the<br />

Christian revelation. To me, though in a hazy way,<br />

it seems full of precious truth of which I find<br />

nothing, and should be very much astonished and<br />

perplexed to find anything, in revelation.”[31]<br />

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