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England should be used to maintain order and introduce civiliza- 

 tion wherever that power extends. 



" The Afghans are a pack of disorderly, treacherous, blood- 

 thirsty thieves and caterans, who should never have been allowed 

 to escape from the heavy hand we laid upon them, after the 

 massacre of twenty thousand of our men, women (and) children in 

 the Khoord Cabul Pass thirty years ago. 



" We have let them be, and the consequence is they now lend 

 themselves to the Russians, and are ready to stir up disorder 

 and undo all the good we have been doing in India for the last 

 generation. 



" They are to India exactly what the Highlanders of Scot- 

 land were to the Lowlanders before 1745 ; and we have just as 

 much right to deal with them in the same way. 



" I am of opinion that our Indian Empire is a curse to us. 

 But so long as we make up our minds to hold it, we must also 

 make up our minds to do those things which are needful to hold 

 it effectually, and in the long-run it will be found that so doing 

 is real justice both for ourselves, our subject population, and the 

 Afghans themselves " (Life, i, p. 489). 



As regards scientific work, 1878 must be described as 

 a Harvey, Hume and Crayfish year. The first direction 

 of activity was dictated by the fact that April i was the 

 tercentenary of Harvey's birth. On January 25, Huxley 

 lectured at the Royal Institution on " William Harvey " 

 (Fortnightly Review, New Ser., xxiii, 1878, pp. 167-90. 

 Sci. Mem., iv, xviii, p. 319). In this lecture Harvey's 

 scientific attitude is shown to be independent of the 

 Baconian philosophy, and occasion is taken to make an 

 attack on the extreme views of anti-vivisectionists. A 

 speech on Harvey was also delivered at the Memorial 

 Meeting, held on July 18, by the College of Physicians. 



A book on Hume took the form of a volume of the 

 English Men of Letters Series, written at the request of 

 the General Editor, Mr. (now the Right Hon.) John 

 Morley. Huxley's strong philosophical predilections 

 here find full expression. A few quotations will at the 



