5 DECEMBER 1874, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR Or TEE ErBOTATOR.1

my letter on Automatism in the Spectator of the 28th ult., you have in two places printed " venoms " instead of "nervous," which, of course, makes nonsense.

1 believe in the freedom of the will within narrow limits, though I do not think it admits of scientific proof. My belief as to the relation of volition to the proved truth (for so I deem it) of the conservation of energy, is expressed better than I could do. it in the extract from the North British Review given in Mr.. Poynting's letter, published also by you on the 28th.—I am,