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Always feeling that science was not solely for the 

 men of science, but for the people, his constant 

 object was to help the struggling world to ideas 

 which should help them to think truly and so to 

 live rightly. It is still true, he declared, that the 

 people perish for want of knowledge. " If I am to 

 be remembered at all," he writes (see vol. ii. p. 222), 

 "I should like to be remembered as one who did 

 his best to help the people." And again, he says in 

 his Autobiographical Sketch, that other marks of 

 success were as nothing if he could hope that he 

 "had somewhat helped that movement of opinion 

 which has been called the New Eeformation." 



This kind of aim in his work, of taking up the 

 most fruitful idea of his time and bringing it home 

 to all, is typified by his remark as he entered New 

 York harbour on his visit to America in 1876, and 

 watched the tugs hard at work as they traversed the 

 bay. " If I were not a man," he said, " I think I 

 should like to be a tug." 



Two incidents may be cited to show that he did 

 not entirely fail of appreciation among those whom 

 he tried to help. Speaking of the year 1874, 

 Professor Mivart writes ("Keminiscences of T. H. 

 Huxley," Nineteenth Century, Dec. 1897) : — 



I recollect going with him and Mr. John Westlake, 

 Q.C., to a meeting of artisans in the Blackfriars Road, 

 to whom he gave a friendly address. He felt a strong 

 interest in working-men, and was much beloved by them. 

 On one occasion, having taken a cab home, on his arrival 



