DR. CARPENTER AND PROFESSOR BARRETT.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SUB.,—Only to-day has my copy of last week's Spectator reached ane. In it I find a letter from Dr. Carpenter containing a number of needlessly offensive and gratuitous assertions concerning my- self and others. It is too late now, I fear, to send you a reply to these for this week, but if you will allow me a little space in your next number, I will show in how many points referring to myself Dr. Carpenter has erred,—unconsciously, no doubt. To me it seems that the point upon which Dr. Carpenter insists as so necessary in all those who record facts such as are detailed in my paper,—viz., a knowledge—though surely it hardly needed Dr. Carpenter to inform us of the fact---that the human mind has "a wonderful proclivity to self-deception," is less important than the absence of such a "proclivity to self-deception" from the mental baits of the investigator himself.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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