192 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY cHAP. VIII 



Yet one point. 



The actions we call sinful are as much the consequence 

 of the order of nature as those we call virtuous. They 

 are part and parcel of the struggle for existence through 

 which all living things have passed, and they have 

 become sins because man alone seeks a higher life in 

 voluntary association. 



Therefore the instrument has never been marred ; on 

 the contrary, we are trying to get music out of harps, 

 sacbuts, and psalteries, which never were in tune and 

 seemingly never wiU be.— Ever yours very faithfully, 



T. H. Hdxley. 



Few years passed without some utterance from 

 Huxley on the subject of education, especially 

 scientific education. This year we have a letter to 

 Professor Ray Lankester touching the science teach- 

 ing at Oxford. 



HoDESLEA, Eastbourne, 

 Jan. 28, 1891. 



Dear Lankester — I met Foster at the Athenseum 

 when I was in town last week, and we had some talk 

 about your " very gentle " stirring of the Oxford pudding. 

 I asked him to let you know when occasion offered, that 

 (as I had already said to Burdon Sanderson) I drew a 

 clear line apud biology between the medical student and 

 the science student. 



With respect to the former, I consider it ought to be 

 kept within strict limits, and made simply a Vorschule 

 to human anatomy and physiology. 



On the other hand, the man who is going out in 

 natural science ought to have a much larger dose, especially 

 in the direction of morphology. However, from what I 

 understood from Foster, there seems a doubt about the 

 " going out " in Natural Science, so I had better confine 



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