"My good and kind agent for the propagation of the Gospel; i.e. the Devil's gospel."

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This humorous remark closes a letter by Charles Darwin, to Huxley (8 August 1860), but it can also be interpreted as referring to Louis Agassiz, rather than Huxley himself.