NOTES AND COMMENT 



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AUTOBIOGRAPHY 

 (See Introduction pp. xix-xx) 



3, 6. Bishop Butler. Joseph Butler (1692-1752), Bishop 

 of Durham, was a writer of great power and influence. His 

 best known work, Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, 

 to the Constitution and Course of Nature, is frequently mentioned 

 by Huxley. 



3, 10. Auckland: ten miles south of Durham. 



3, 17. Pre-Boswellian epoch: the age in which biography 

 was less personal and prying than it came to be after 1791, 

 when James Boswell (1740-1795) published his Life of Samuel 

 Johnson. 



3, 22. " Bene qui latuit, bene vixit." From Ovid : " Who- 

 ever has lived unobserved has lived well." 



4, 15. Hyde Park Corner: one of the nine gateways to 

 Hyde Park, two and a quarter miles south by west of St. 

 Paul's Cathedral. 



4, 30-31. Mellifluous eloquence: eloquence that flows or 

 drops from the lips like honey. It is said that when Plato was 

 in his cradle a swarm of bees lighted on his mouth. The same 

 story is told of St. Ambrose and St. Dominick. 



5, 7-8. That particular Apostle: Thomas, the doubting 

 Apostle, who demanded proof before he would believe. See 

 John xx, 2$. 



6, 9. Prince George of Cambridge: a grandson of George 

 III and Commander-in-chief of the British army. 



6, 15-16. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903): one of the greatest 

 philosophers of the nineteenth century. He was an intimate 

 friend of Huxley, to whom he used to send proofsheets of his 

 biological works for criticism. He applied Darwin's theory of 

 evolution to the economic and institutional life of man. 



7, 10. Sydney: capital of New South Wales, Australia, 

 visited by Huxley on the voyage of the Rattlesnake. 



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