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there, when he held out his fare to the cabman, the 

 latter replied, " Oh no. Professor, I have had too much 

 pleasure and profit from hearing you lecture to take 

 any money from your pocket — proud to have driven 

 you, sir ! " 



The other is from a letter to the Pall Mall 

 Gazette of September 20, 1892, from Mr. Eaymond 

 Blaythwayt, on " The Uses of Sentiment " : — 



Only to-day I had a most striking instance of 

 sentiment come beneath my notice. I was about to 

 enter my house, when a plain, simply-dressed working- 

 man came up to me with a note in his hand, and 

 touching his hat, he said, " I think this is for you, sir," 

 and then he added, " Will you give me the envelope, 

 sir, as a great favour ? " I looked at it, and seeing it 

 bore the signature of Professor Huxley, I replied, 

 " Certainly I will ; but why do you ask for it 1 " " Well," 

 said he, " it's got Professor Huxley's signature, and it 

 will be something for me to show my mates and keep 

 for my children. He have done me and my like a lot 

 of good ; no man more." 



In practical administration, his judgment of men, 

 his rapid perception of the essential points at issue, 

 his observance of the necessary limits of official 

 forms, combined with the greatest possible elasticity 

 within these limits, made him extremely successful. 



As Professor (writes the late Professor Jeffery Parker), 

 Huxley's rule was characterised by what is undoubtedly 

 the best policy for the head of a department. To a new 

 subordinate, " The General," as he was always called, 

 was rather stern and exacting, but when once he was 

 convinced that his man was to be trusted, he practically 

 let him take his own course ; never interfered in matters 



