London, 14 November 1868 
Dear Frep, 

Best thanks for £5. 

For the past few days I have had once again the beginning of 
carbunculosem. Since this muck always starts at this time, I 
immediately began again with the arsenic. This should cut off 
further EVOLUTION. 

I am sending you subsequently (rather simultaneously) amusing 
cuttings from the Paris press, supplied by Lafargue. You must send 
them back, since Jennychen collects the stuff. 

Enclosed also a jolly cutting from Figaro on the people’s 
economic conferences **! under the LeapersHip of Rabbi A. Einhorn, 
GENERALLY KNOWN BY THE NAME OF J, F. Horn. This idiot (who is, 
incidentally, skilled in the practice of agiofage) published some time 
since a book on the banks,*? of which even the Economist said it was 
obviously written only for children (although the Times reviewed 
it ceremoniously). 

Apropos the Economist, you would be surprised to hear that, 
following the example of Thernton in the Fortnightly Review,” the 
Economist declared‘ verbatim: ‘No ‘aw’? OF DEMAND AND SUPPLY, IN ANY 
SENSE WHICH HAS YET BEEN ASSIGNED TO THESE WORDS, EXISTS} NEITHER IN FACT, NOR 
IN TENDENCY, DO MARKET PRICES CONFORM TO THE RULE COMMONLY SUPPOSED TO 
GOVERN THEM.” 

The great Biichner has sent me his ‘Sechs Vorlesungen etc. tiber die 
Darwin’sche Theorie, etc.’ The book was not yet out when I was 
visiting Kugelmann.” And he (Biichner) has now already sent me 
the second edition! The way such books are made is nice. Biichner, for 
instance (as everybody who has read Lange’s balderdash* knows 
anyway), states that his chapter on materialist philosophy has been 
copied mainly from this very Lange. And this same Biichner looks 
down pityingly on Aristotle, whom he obviously only knows by 

a J, E. Horn, La Liberté des banques, Paris, [1866]. A German edition was published 
in 1867 in Stuttgart and Leipzig. - » W. Th. Thornton, ‘A New Theory of Supply 
and Demand’, The Fortnightly Review, No. XXXIV, 1 October 1866. - ¢ J. E. C., ‘The 
“Law” of Demand and Supply’, The Economist, No. 1210, 3 November 1866, 
p. 1280. -4 F. A. Lange, Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der 
Gegenwart, Bde. I-II, Iserlohn, 1866. 

hearsay! What really amused me, however, was the following passage 
with regard to the works of Cabanis* (1798): 

‘You might almost be listening to Karl Vogt when you read (in Cabanis) expressions 
like these: “The brain is intended for thinking, as the stomach is meant for digestion 
or the liver for secreting the bile from the blood”, etc.’ 

Buchner obviously believes that Cabanis has copied from K. Vogt. 
Even to imagine the opposite exceeds the critical faculties of the 
worthy Bichner. He appears to have first learned of Cabanis from 
Lange! Ce sont des savants sérieux!‘ 

Paris is haunted. The Baudin affair is really reminiscent of the 
banquet movement under Louis Philippe.” Only today there is no 
National Guard, and Bugeaud (as far as brutality comes into play) 
is ready from the first day, while in February he was the last to be 
called upon and at a moment when there existed no ministry, that 
is to say, under the conditions at that ume, no government. 
Moreover, barricade-building is useless. Leaving aside the Weber °- 
Pyat bulls of excommunication, I cannot see how a revolution in 
Paris could be successful, apart from treason and defection or 
division in the army. 

I have put a new bee into the bonnets of the Urquhartites (since 
Collet invited me and my family to visit him last Sunday week *: 
I had not seen him personally for years), a bee that is now 
being very seriously debated between Collet and Urquhart, namely 
that Peel’s Bank Act of 1844 makes it possible for the Russian 
Government, under CERTAIN CONJUNCTURES OF THE MONEY-MARKET, to force 
the Bank of England into bankruptcy.’ Despite my diplomacy 
with Collet, I could not keep silent as he driveled on about Ireland, 
and told him sosr vecipepty, to his face, my views ON THIS 
QUESTION. 

Tussy is attending private gymnastic classes. Her compliments ro 
Mrs Burns. : 

Salut. 

Your 
K. M.