IGO LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY cHAP. vii 



though I did not tliink the catastrophe was so im- 

 minent 



Peace be AvitL him ; he never did justice to his very 

 considerable abilities, but he was a good fellow and a tine 

 old crusted Conservative. 



I suppose it will be necessary to declare the vacancy 

 and put somebody in his place before long. 



I learned before I started that Smyth was to be 

 buried in Cornwall, so there is no question of attending 

 at his funeral 



I am the last of the original Jermyn Street gang 

 left in the school now — Ultimus Eomanorum ! — Ever 

 yours very faithfully, T. H, Huxley. 



This trip was taken by way of a holiday after the 

 ■writing of an article, which appeared in the Nineteenth 

 Century for July 1890. It was called "The Lights 

 of the Church and the Light of Science," and may 

 be considered as written in fulfilment of the plan 

 spoken of in the letter to Mr. Clodd (p. 117). Its 

 subject was the necessary dependence of Christian 

 theology upon the historical accuracy of the Old 

 Testament ; its occasion, the publication of a sermon 

 in which, as a counterblast to Lux Mundi, Canon 

 Liddon declared that accuracy to be sanctioned by 

 the use made of the Old Testament by Jesus Christ, 

 and bade his hearers close their ears against any 

 suggestions impairing the credit of those Jewish 

 Scriptures which have received the stamp of His 

 Divine authority. 



Mineralogy at the Royal School of Mines. After the lectureships 

 were separat€d in 1881, he retained the former until his death. 

 He was knighted in 1887. 



