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no caste, except that which results from industrial, intellectual, and 

 social worth, combined with gentleness of manner. If its votaries 

 pay exceptional homage to sorae great and gifted man — a Huxley, 

 for example— it is because we recognise in him the very highest ex- 

 pression of the principle of the dignity of human labour. When 

 other marks of distinction fade, that principle will come more and 

 more to the front. As to the humble work of the Quekett Club, it 

 may not find its deeds recorded in sumptuous and expensively illus- 

 trated quartos ; yet, for all that, it will have contributed something 

 towards the general advancement, something towards keeping in 

 remembrance the life and labours of that good and honest man 

 whose patronym it bears, and last, not least, something towards the 

 individual attainment, on the part of its members, of that inestim- 

 able boon of life known as the " sound mind in the healthy body." 



