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LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY 



ministration, 235 ; appears be- 

 fore London University Com- 

 mission, 237 ; heads deputation 

 to Prime Minister, 239 ; opposes 

 creation of an Estai)lished 

 Church scientific, 238; letter on 

 scientific aspirations, 245 ; on 

 free thought ribaldry, 246 ; made 

 a Privy Councillor, 247 ; the title 

 of Bight Hon., 254 ; official re- 

 cognition on leaving office, 256 ; 

 visit to Osborne, 255, 256 ; a 

 friend's second marriage, 258 ; 

 friendship and funerals, 260 ; 

 the modern martyrdom, 261 ; 

 source of his iU- health, 263; 

 faculty of forgetting, 266 ; on 

 sacramental food, 267 ; poem 

 on Tennyson's funeral, 271 ; a 

 religion for men, ib. ; funerals, 

 272 ; his part in the memorial to 

 Owen, 273-275, SOf) ; on bearing 

 attacks, 275 ; proposed working- 

 men's lectures on the Bible, 279 ; 

 testimony and the marvellous, 

 282 ; Manx mannikins, 283 ; 

 home pets, 284 ; payment for 

 work out of the ordinary, 288, 

 293 ; on dying by inches, 297 ; 

 the approach of death, 314 ; 

 description of his personality in 

 Lankester's review of the Col- 

 lected Essays, 318 ; letter from a 

 lunatic, 320 ; a contretemps at a 

 public dinner, 321 ; at Oxford, 

 1894, 324-331 ; criticism of Lord 

 Salisbury, 325 ; repeated in 

 Nature, 327, 336, 341 ; deafness, 

 332, 402 ; growing hopefulness in 

 age, 338 ; receives Darwin medal, 

 ih. ; speech, 342 sq. ; his "last 

 appearance on any stage," 339, 

 341 ; characterises his work for 

 science, 344 (cp. 20) ; late liking 

 for public speaking, 346 ; 

 slovenly writing in science, ib. ; 

 lifelong love of philosophy, ib. ; 

 the abysmal griefs of life, 348 ; 

 brilliancy of talk just before his 

 last illness, 355 ; a meeting with 

 a priest, ib. ; writes article on 

 Foundations of Belief, 356; proof- 

 reading, 359 ; his last illness, 

 360-363 ; passion for veracity, 865 

 (cp. ii. 327) ; absence of dog- 

 matism in lectures, 366 ; children 

 and theology, 367 ; " Royal lies," 

 368 n. ; his great work, securing 

 freedom of speech, 3'70 ; care- 

 lessness of priority, ib. ; recogni- 



tion of predecessors, 370 ; 

 honesty, 371 ; loyalty, ib. ; 

 friends and intimates, 372 ; 

 practical side of his work, 374 ; 

 how regarded by working-men, 

 ib. ; his face described, by Pro- 

 fessor Osbom, 377, by Sir W. 

 Besant, 411 n. ; liis lectures 

 described, 377-384 ; preparation 

 for his lectures, 385 ; ordinary 

 day's work, ib. ; method, 386 ; 

 reading, 386, 387; memory for 

 facts, not words, 386 ; delight in 

 literature and art, ZS7 sq.; foreign 

 languages, 388 ; recreations, 389, 

 390 ; table talk of, 395 sq. ; the 

 happiness of others, 395 ; simian 

 characteristics of infants, 396; 

 difficulties of disproof and direct 

 evidence, ib. ; Cock Lane and 

 Common Sense, ib. ; transient in- 

 fluence of false assertions, 397 ; 

 movement of modem philo- 

 sophy, ib. ; Plato, 398 ; geo- 

 graphical teaching, ib. ; Greeks 

 and Jews, 399, 400 ; his part in 

 controversy, 400 ; responsibility, 

 ib. ; dramatic and literary 

 faculties, 401 ; French and 

 English artists, ib. ; human 

 nature described, ib. ; his manner 

 of conversation, 401, 402 ; anec- 

 dotes from, 402, 403 ; home life : 

 relations with his children, 405- 

 410 ; and grandchildren, 410- 

 416 ; nonsense letters, 416-419 ; a 

 day's work in later life, 420 ; 

 lo\'e of his garden, 422 sq. ; the 

 "lodger," 405; sustaining power 

 of a wife's comradeship, 409 ; 

 field botany, 422 



Huxley Hall, i. 3 

 visit to, iii 199 



Huxley Island, i. 62 



Huxley laboratory, iii. 186 



Huxley's layer, i. 30 



Iddesleigh, Lord, letter to— Civil 



List pension, ii. 417 

 Idols, tendency to make, ii. 357 

 llkley, at, ii. 473 ; iii. 27 

 Illustrious, H.M.S., ordered to join, 



i. 108 

 Immortality, i. 348 ; iii. 221 (cp. ii. 



299, 351) 

 Immortality and the conservation of 



energy, iii. 191 

 Imperial Institute, iii. 3-8 

 Impromptu speaking, iii. 383 

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