28 SELECTIONS FROM HUXLEY 



If these ideas be destined, as I believe they are, to be 

 more and more firmly established as the world grows older ; 

 if that spirit be fated, as I believe it is, to extend itself into^ 

 all departments of human thought, and to become coexten- 

 5 sive with the range of knowledge ; if, as our race approaches 

 its maturity, it discovers, as I believe it will, that there is 

 but one kind of knowledge and but one method of acquiring 

 it ; then we, who are still children, may justly feel it our high- 

 est duty to recognize the advisableness of improving natural 

 10 knowledge, and so aid ourselves and our successors in their 

 course towards the noble goal which lies before mankind. 



