IN a discussion which took place at a reception at G. H. Lewes's, somebody asserted that everyone had written a tragedy. Lewes agreed with the statement, saying,
'Yes, everyone—even Herbert Spencer.'—' Ah,' interposed Huxley, 'I know what the catastrophe would be — an induction killed by a fact.'
From Walter Jerrold, A Book of Famous Wits (1912), p. 320.