8o SELECTIONS FROM HUXLEY 



17 9 Vesalius (1514-1564) : a noted Belgian anatomist. 

 17 10 Harvey, William (1578-1564) : an English physiologist who dis- 

 covered the circulation of the blood. 



17 32 Lord Brouncker: President of the Royal Society, 1662. 



18 10 revenant : French for ghost. 



194 Boyle, Robert (1627-1691) : an English chemist noted for his 

 discovery of the law of the elasticity of the air. 



194 Evelyn, John (1620-1706) : English author, noted for his " Di- 

 ary," which contains an account of the men and manners of his time. 



20 28 spinning jenny : a machine invented for spinning a number of 

 threads at once, and named by the inventor, John Hargreaves, after his 

 wife, Jenny. Some writers connect this word jenny with gin (cotton 

 gin), and the second syllable of the word engine. 



26 5 Count Rumford : born Benjamin Thompson, in Rumford, New 

 Hampshire, 1738. He was educated at Harvard College ; acquitted 

 during the American Revolution of the charge of loyalty to the King ; 

 removed to England, and became famous as a physicist. The Rumford 

 Professorship of Science at Harvard was founded by him. He died in 

 1814. 



A LIBERAL EDUCATION 



"A Liberal Education: and where to find it" : This address was deliv- 

 ered January 4, 1868, at the South London Working Men's College. 

 It was first published in Huxley's " Lay Sermons, Essays and Re- 

 views," 1871. 



30 1 Ichabod : i Samuel iv,' 21. See Whittier's poem " Ichabod," be- 

 ginning, 



" So fallen ! so lost ! the light withdrawn which once he wore ! 

 The glory from his gray hairs gone Forevermore ! " 



31 15 public schools : these are not public schools as the term is under- 

 stood in America. The " public schools " here meant are the great 

 schools of which Rugby and Eton are examples. 



31 21 senior wrangler : the winner at Cambridge of the highest 

 mathematical honors. 



31 21 double-first : an Oxford candidate for degree wins a " double- 

 first " when he receives first-class honors in both classics and mathematics. 



32 19 knife, fork, and spoon : an argument for manual training? 



33 29 Retzsch, Friedrich August Moritz (1779-1857) : German painter 

 and designer of distinction. 



33 33 This discussion of education and of a liberally educated man 

 (see p. 36) is well worthy of careful study. 



