372 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. 



may not be in accordance with the Gospel, but I have 

 found it a good wearing creed for honest men." 

 But he only regarded as " enemies " those whom he 

 found to be double-dealers, shufflers, insincere, un- 

 trustworthy ; a fair opponent he respected, and he 

 could agree to differ with a friend without altering 

 his friendship. 



A lifelong impression of him was thus summed 

 up by Dr. A. R. Wallace : — 



I find that he was my jimior by two years, yet he 

 has always seemed to me to be the older, mainly no 

 doubt, because from the very first time I saw him (now 

 more than forty years ago), I recognised his vast 

 superiority in ability, in knowledge, and in all those 

 qualities that enable a man to take a foremost place in 

 the world. I owe him thanks for much kindness and 

 for assistance always cordially given, and although we had 

 many differences of opinion, I never received from him 

 a harsh or im^kind word. 



To those who could only judge him from his 

 controversial literature, or from a formal business 

 meeting, he often appeared hard and unsympathetic, 

 but never to those who saw beneath the surface. 

 In personal intercourse, if he disliked a man — and a 

 strong individuality has strong likes and dislikes — 

 he would merely veil his feelings under a super- 

 abundant politeness of the chilliest kind; but to 

 any one admitted to his friendship he was sympathy 

 itself. And thus, although I have heard him say 

 that his friends, in the fullest sense of the word, 

 could be reckoned on the fingers of one hand, the 



