46 Selections from Huxley 



If these ideas be destined, as I believe they are, to 

 be more and more firmly established as the world grows 

 older; if that spirit be fated, as I believe it is, to extend 

 itself into all departments of human thought, and to 

 5 become co-extensive with the range of knowledge; if, 

 as our race approaches its maturity, it discovers, as I be- 

 lieve it will, that there is but one kind of knowledge and 

 but one method of acquiring it; then we, who are still 

 children, may justly feel it our highest duty to recognize 

 10 the advisableness of improving natural knowledge, and 

 so to aid ourselves and our successors in their course to- 

 wards the noble goal which lies before mankind. 



