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lying truths of many theological 

 teachings, ib. ; moral aspiration 

 and the hope of immortality, 323; 

 the world and comfortable doc- 

 trines, ib. ; President of the Lon- 

 don University Reform Associa- 

 tion, 332; administration, 333; ap- 

 pears before London University 

 Commission, 334; heads deputa- 

 tion to Prime Minister, 336; op- 

 poses creation of an Established 

 Church scientific, 335; letter on 

 scientific aspirations, 341; on free 

 thought ribaldry, 342; made a 

 Privy Councillor, ib. ; the title of 

 Right Hon., 348; official recog- 

 nition on leaving office, 349; visit 

 to Osborne, 348, 349; a friend's 

 second marriage, 351; friendship 

 and funerals, 353; the modern 

 martyrdom, ib. ; source of his ill- 

 health, 354; faculty of forgetting, 

 356; on sacramental food, 357; 

 poem on Tennyson's funeral, 361; 

 a religion for men, ib. ; funerals, 

 ib. ; his part in the memorial to 

 Owen, 361-63, 386, 387; on bear- 

 ing attacks, 363; proposed 

 working-men's lectures on the 

 Bible, 366; testimony and the 

 marvellous, 368; Manx manni- 

 kins, ib. ; home pets, 369; pay- 

 ment for work out of the ordi- 

 nary, 372, 375; on dying by inches, 

 378; the approach of death, 390; 

 description of his personality in 

 Lankester's review of the Col- 

 lected Essays, 393; letter from a 

 lunatic, 395; a contretemps at a 

 public dinner, ib. ; at Oxford, 

 1894, 397-401 ; criticism of Lord 

 Salisbury, 397, 398; repeated in 

 Nature, 400, 407, 410; deafness, 404, 

 454; growing hopefulness in age, 

 408; receives Darwin Medal, ib.; 

 speech, 411 sq.; his "last appear- 

 ance on any stage," 409, 410; char- 

 acterises his work for science, 

 412 (cp. 173); late liking for pub- 

 lic speaking, 414; slovenly writ- 

 ing in science, ib.; life-long love 

 of philosophy, ib. ; the abysmal 

 griefs of life, 415; brilliancy of 



talk just before his last illness, 

 420; a meeting with a priest, ib.; 

 writes article on Foundations of 

 Belief, 421; proof-reading, 423; his 

 last illness, 423-26; passion for 

 veracity, 427 (cp. 429) ; absence of 

 dogmatism in lectures, 428; chil- 

 dren and theology, ib. ; " Royal 

 lies," 429 . ; his great work, se- 

 curing freedom of speech, 433; 

 carelessness of priority, ib. ; recog- 

 nition of predecessors, 431; hon- 

 esty, ib.; loyalty, 432; friends 

 and intimates, ib. ; practical side 

 of his work, 433; how regarded 

 by working-men, 434; his face de- 

 scribed, by Professor Osborn, 

 436, by Sir W. Besant, 460 n. ; 

 his lectures described, 435-41; 

 preparation for his lectures, 441; 

 ordinary day's work, 442; method, 

 ib.; reading, 442, 443; memory for 

 facts, not words, 443; delight in 

 literature and art, ib. sq. ; foreign 

 languages, 444; recreations, 444, 

 445 ; table talk of, 449 sq. ; the 

 happiness of others, ib. ; sim- 

 ian characteristics of infants, 

 ib. ; difficulties of disproof and 

 direct evidence, 450; Common 

 Sense and the Cock Lane Ghost, 

 ib.; transient influence of false 

 assertions, ib. ; movement of mod- 

 ern philosophy, ib.; Plato, 451; 

 geographical teaching, tb. ; Greeks 

 and Jews, 451, 452; his part in 

 controversy, 452; responsibility, 

 453; dramatic and literary facul- 

 ties, ib.; French and English 

 artists, ib. ; human nature de- 

 scribed, ib.; his manner of con- 

 versation, 454, 455; anecdotes 

 from, ib.; home life: relations 

 with his children, 456-59; and 

 grandchildren, 460-65; nonsense 

 letters, 465, 466; a day's work in 

 later life, 468; love of his gar- 

 den, 469 sq. ; the "lodger," 456; 

 sustaining power of a wife's 

 comradeship, 459; field botany, 

 469. 



Huxley Hall, i. 2; visit to, ii. 306. 



Huxley Island, i. 46. 



