200 Thomas Henry Huxley 



biologies. They are merely special cases of the appli- 

 cation of the same general fund of knowledge, and 

 the same general principles of investigation, Huxley 

 wished that the term " applied science " had never been 

 invented, or that it could be destroyed. A man cannot 

 study the chemistr}^ of dyeing or make advances in it 

 unless he be a thoroughly trained chemist in the full 

 sense of the word. More than that, many of the great- 

 est discoveries, using the word "great" as applied to 

 commercial advantage rather than to abstract progress 

 in knowledge, have been made by those who were 

 pursuing research for its own sake rather than for any 

 immediate commercial advantage to be derived from it. 

 Hence he regarded it of vital importance, from the 

 mere point of view of the prosperity of the country, 

 that there should be a sufficiently large number of 

 scientific men provided with the means for research in 

 the shape of income and appliances. The most im- 

 mediately utilitarian fashion for the nation to encourage 

 science, was to encourage science in its highest and 

 most advanced aspects. This meant the endowment 

 of research and the support of universities and other 

 institutions in which research might be conducted, 

 and Huxley strove unceasingly for the benefit of all 

 such great organisations. One of the last public oc- 

 casions of his life was his appearance as leader of a 

 deputation to urge upon the government the formation 

 of a real university in London which should unite the 

 scattered institutions of that great city and promote 

 the highest spheres of the pursuit of knowledge. He 

 held the view, strongly, that a useful combination was 

 to be made by uniting the functions of teaching and 

 investigation. A teacher taught better when his mind 

 was kept fresh by the advances he himself was making. 



