132 THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 



the elements of the two first being a fitting part of an 

 earlier stage. 



The Johns Hopkins University was established with 

 special reference to the encouragement of research, re- 

 garding which we read : — 



" But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, 

 so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of 

 those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step 

 further than their predecessors ; so certain is it that the highest 

 function of a university is to seek out those men, cherish them, 

 and give their ability to serve their kind full play." 



The waste of money on mere architecture is deprecated, 

 a plea entered for reasonable payment of the staiF, and 

 that these with other experts should be properly repre- 

 sented on the governing body, if only in the interest of 

 good and rational appointments to the professoriate. 



The address concludes with the expression of a firm 

 belief in the future of America, — 



"... but the one condition of success, your sole safeguard, 

 is the moral worth and intellectual clearness of the individual 



citizen." 



The three lectures on Evolution were delivered at New 

 York on September i8, 20 and 22 (Coll. Essays, iv, 

 p. 46). The first deals with "The Three Hypotheses 

 respecting the History of Nature," i.e., that of perpetual 

 sameness, the special creation hypothesis, and the doctrine 

 of evolution. This leads on to the second lecture on 

 " The Hypothesis of Evolution : the Neutral and the 

 Favourable Evidence," and this again to the third lecture 

 on "The Demonstrative Evidence of Evolution," illustrated 

 by the special case of the horse, for which the American 

 strata furnish such valuable materials. The results 

 derived from a study of these were embodied in a lecture 



