43 BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS 



of science of the nineteenth century; a man of most thorough 

 and exact scholarship, with a keen, analytical mind that went 

 directly to the center of questions under consideration, and 

 powers as a writer that gave him a wide circle of readers. 

 He was magnificently sincere in his light for the prevalence 



FIG. 121. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, 1825-1895. 



of intellectual honesty. Doubtless he will be longer remem- 

 bered for this service than for anything else. 



He defended the doctrine of evolution, not only against 

 oratorical attacks like that of Bishop Wilberforce, but against 

 well-considered arguments and more worthy opponents. He 

 advanced the standing; of the theory in a less direct way 



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by urging the pursuit of scientific studies by high-school 

 and university students, and by bringing science closer to 



