LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY 



and arbitrary acts, 99; not roused 

 even by prospect of a fight, 102; 

 moral courage and picture gal- 

 leries, 107; retires from public 

 life, 112, 115 sqq. ; illness makes 

 him shirk responsibility, 112 (cp. 

 453); at Filey, 113; medicinal 

 effect of a book on miracles, 114; 

 science and creeds, 120, 172; in- 

 tention to revise work on the 

 Mollusca, 130; writes From the 

 Hut to the Pantheon, 134; at Ilkley, 

 137 sq., 141; his career indirectly 

 determined by Dr. Ransom's 

 overworking, 142; visit to Arolla, 

 146; effect of, 147; second visit to 

 Arolla, 180 sq. ; begins study of 

 gentians, 146; theological work, a 

 sort of crib-biting, 148; death of 

 a visitor at Arolla, memento of 

 him, ib. ; his boyhood and educa- 

 tion compared with Spencer's, 

 155; administrative insight, 157; 

 his only sixpence earned by 

 manual labour, 158; attack of 

 pleurisy, 165; Science and Art 

 Department examinership, 167, 

 228, 250, 251; reply to the Duke 

 of Argyll on pseudo-science, 168; 

 on coral reef theories, 169, 170; 

 thinks of retiring to Shanklin, 

 174; at Savernake, 175; " An 

 Episcopal Trilogy," 169 sq. ; ac- 

 knowledgment of error, 169; let- 

 ter on Murray's theory of coral 

 reefs, 171; his own share in the 

 work of science, 173 (cp. 412) ; 

 speculation and fact, 173; honor- 

 ary committee of French teach- 

 ers, 174; supports free library for 

 Marylebone, 175, 178; on titles of 

 honour, 175; the Irish question, 

 179; the philosophy of age, 

 " lucky it's no worse," 189, 210, 

 211 ; death of his second daughter, 

 190 sq. ; paper philosophers, 203; 

 Trustee of British Museum, 204; 

 consolation for age in past serv- 

 ice, 211, 213; the stimulus of 

 vanity, 212; depression, 213; re- 

 covery at the Maloja, 214; re- 

 newed work on gentians, ib. ; 

 receives Copley Medal, 215; a 



centre of society at Maloja, 218; 

 receives a futile " warning," 219; 

 refuges for the incompetent, 226; 

 battles not to be multiplied be- 

 yond necessity, 227; a " house- 

 hold animal of value," 229; ap- 

 pearance of, in 1889, 230; works 

 at the limit of his powers, 231; 

 marriage of his youngest daugh- 

 ter, ib. ; hatred of anonymity, 

 233; settles at Eastbourne, 234; 

 controversy on Agnosticism, 236 

 sq. ; aim in controversy, 239 sq., 

 249, 251, 271; and in philosophy, 

 265, 298; on suffering fools gladly, 

 242, 248; his autobiographical 

 sketch, 245; superiority of the 

 male figure, 247; alcohol, ib. ; 

 clericalism, 249; second visit to 

 Maloja, 252 sq. ; returns to East- 

 bourne, 256; led to write on social 

 questions, 258 sq., 261-66; man- 

 ner of work, 262, 263; prac- 

 tical results of wrong thinking, 

 265; marriage and the wisdom of 

 Solomon, 267; trip to Canaries, 

 266-72; Ulysses and Penelope, 

 270; receives Linnean Medal, 272; 

 the Flood myth, 276; dislike to 

 moving, 278; reply to Dr. Ab- 

 bott, 280 sq. ; quietude of mind 

 impossible, 286; on ethnological 

 questions possesses the impartial- 

 ity of a mongrel, 286; pertinacity, 

 289; sends books to Royal Col- 

 lege of Science, 295; rational and 

 irrational certainty, 298; his aim, 

 truth in all things, 299; new 

 house completed through Mr. 

 Rich's legacy, 304, 305; visits 

 Huxley Hall, 306; almost inde- 

 cent to be so well again, 307; his 

 garden, ib.; warns younger gener- 

 ation that the battle is only half 

 won, 308; essays translated into 

 French, ib. sq. ; love for his native 

 tongue, ib.; party politics and 

 Unionism, 312; a scholar, not a 

 leader of a sect, 319; backwoods- 

 man's work, ib.; a full life suggests 

 more than negative criticism, ib. ; 

 creation and providence, 320, 321; 

 ethics of evolution, 322; under- 



