Next as to the text itself. Furthermore, English propriety had taken fright at rumours touching the aggressive heterodoxy of some passages. But I stop. By ths time you will be swearing at me for attacking all your favourite bits. I congratulate you and Madame Haeckel heartily on the birth of your boy.
Children work a greater metamorphosis in men than any other condition of life.
They ripen one wonderfully and make life ten times better worth having than it was.