46 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY cHAP. II 



85 Marina, St. Leonards, 

 A-ov. 25, 1887. 



My dear Knowles — I really must thank you very 

 heartily for your letter. It went to our hearts and did 

 us good, and I know you will like to learn that you have 

 helped us in this grievous time. 



My wife is better, but fit for very little ; and I do 

 not let her write a letter even, if I can help it. But it 

 is a great deal harder to keep her from doing what she 

 thinks her duty than to get most other people to do what 

 plainly is their duty. 



With our kindest love and thanks to all of you— Ever, 

 my dear Knowles, yours very faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



Yes, you are quite right about "loyal." I love my 

 friends and hate my enemies, which may not be in 

 accordance with the Gospel, but I have found it a good 

 wearing creed for honest men. 



The " Address on behalf of the National Associa- 

 tion for the Promotion of Technical Education," first 

 published in the ensuing number of Science and Art, 

 and reprinted in Collected Essays, iii. 427-451, was 

 duly delivered in Manchester, and produced a con- 

 siderable effect. 



He writes to Sir M, Foster, December 1 : — 



I am glad I resisted the strong temptation to shirk the 

 business. Manchester has gone solid for technical educa- 

 tion, and if the idiotic London papers, instead of giving 

 half a dozen lines of my speech, had mentioned the solid 

 contributions to the work announced at the meeting, they 

 would have enabled you to understand its imjaortance. 



... I have the satisfaction of having got through a 

 hard bit of work, and am none the worse physically — 

 rather the better for having to pull myself together. 



