INDEX 



485 



Rome, 385, 387, S90, 392 ; a de- 

 cayed naturalist, will turn anti- 

 quarian, 390 ; Radicals and ar- 

 bitrary acts, 393 ; not roused 

 even by prospect of a fight, 398 ; 

 moral courage and picture 

 galleries, 404 ; retires from 

 public life, 410, 415 sqq. ; illness 

 makes him shirk responsibility, 

 411 (cp. iii. 400) ; at FUey, 413 ; 

 medicinal efifect of a book on 

 miracles, 413 ; science and 

 creeds, 422 ; iii. 18 ; intention 

 to revise work ou the Mollusca, 

 435 ; writes From the Hut to the. 

 Pantheon, 442 ; at lUdey, 446 53., 

 450 ; his career indirectly de- 

 termined by Dr. Ransom's over- 

 working, 452 ; visit to AroUa, 

 457 ; eflect of, 458 ; second visit 

 to Arolla, iii. 29 sq. • begins 

 study of gentians, ii. 458 ; theo- 

 logical work, a sort of crib- 

 biting, 460 ; death of a visitor at 

 Arolla, memento of him, 460 ; 

 his boyhood and education com- 

 pared with Spencer's, 471 ; ad- 

 ministrative insight, 474 ; his 

 only sixpence earned by manual 

 labour, 474 

 attack of pleurisy, iii. 8 ; Science 

 and Art Department examiner- 

 ship, 10, 11, 94, 125, 126; 

 reply to the Duke of Argyll on 

 pseudo-science, 12, on coral reet 

 theories, 13-16 ; thinks of retiring 

 to Shanklin, 21 ; at Savernake, 

 22 ; "An Episcopal Trilogy," 

 14 sg. ; acknowledgment of error, 

 16 ; letter on Murray's theory of 

 coral reefs, 17 ; his own share in 

 the work of science, 19 (cp. 344) ; 

 speculation and fact, 20 ; hon- 

 orary committee of French 

 teachers, ih. ; supports free 

 library for Marylebone, 22, 26 ; 

 on titles of honour, 23 ; the Irish 

 question, 28 ; the philosophy of 

 age, "lucky it's no worse," 41, 

 69, 71 ; death of his second 

 daughter, 43 sq. ; paper philo- 

 sophers, 60 ; Trustee of British 

 Museum, 61 ; consolation for age 

 in past service, 71 ; the stimulus 

 of vanity, 72 ; depression, 73 ; 

 recovery at the Maloja, 75 ; re- 

 newed work on gentians, ih. ; 

 receives Copley Medal, 76 ; a 

 centre of society at Maloja, SO ; 

 receives a futile "warning," 81 ; 



refuges for the incompetent, 

 91 ; battles not to be multiplied 

 beyond necessity, 93 ; a " house- 

 hold animal of value," 96 ; 

 appearance of, in 1889, 99 ; works 

 at the limit of his powers, 99 ; 

 marriage of his youngest 

 daughter, ib. ; hatred of anonym- 

 ity, 102 (cp. ii. 467) ; settles at 

 Eastbourne, 103 ; controversy 

 on Agnosticism, 105 sq. ; aim in 

 controversy, 111 sq., 125, 176 ; 

 and in philosophy, 145, 190 ; on 

 suffering fools gladly, 114, 123 ; 

 his autobiographical sketch, 119 ; 

 superiority of the male figure, 

 121 ; alcohol, ih. ; clericalism, 

 123 ; second visit to Maloja, 127 

 sq. ; returns to Eastbourne, 133 ; 

 led to write on social questions, 

 134 sq. , 140-146 ; manner of work, 

 140, 141 ; practical results of 

 wrong thinking, 145 ; marriage 

 and the wisdom of Solomon, 

 148 ; trip to Canaries, 147-156 ; 

 Ulysses and Penelope, 152 ; re- 

 ceives Linnean Medal, 154 ; the 

 Flood myth, 161; dislike to 

 moving, 163 ; reply to Dr. 

 Abbott, 166 sq. ; quietude of 

 mind impossible, 173 ; on ethno- 

 logical questions possesses the 

 impartiality of a mongrel, 174 ; 

 pertinacity, 177 ; sends books to 

 Royal College of Science, 186 ; 

 rational and irrational certainty, 

 189 ; his aim, truth in all things, 

 191 ; new house completed 

 through Mr. Rich's legacy, 196, 

 197 ; visits Huxley Hall, 199 ; 

 almost indecent to be so well 

 again, 200 ; his garden, 201 ; 

 warns younger generation that 

 the battle is only half won, 201 ; 

 essays translated into French, 

 i:02 sq. ; love for his native 

 tongue, 202 ; party politics and 

 Unionism, 207 ; a scholar, not a 

 leader of a sect, 216 ; backwoods- 

 man's work, 217 ; a fuU life 

 suggests more than negative 

 criticism, ih. ; creation and pro- 

 vidence, 218, 219 ; ethics of evolu- 

 tion, 220 ; underlying truths of 

 many theological teachings, ih. ; 

 moral aspiration and the hope 

 of immortality, 221 ; the world 

 and comfortable doctrines, 222 ; 

 President of London University 

 Reform Association, 234 ; ad- 



