I50 THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 



trace out the effects of our actions and thereby dictate conduct. 

 Justice is founded on the love of one's neighbour ; and goodness 

 is a kind of beauty. . . And as there are Pascals and Mozarts, 

 Newtons and Raffaelles, in whom the innate faculty for science 

 or art seems to need but a touch to spring into full vigour, and 

 through whom the human race obtains new possibilities of 

 knowledge and new conceptions of beauty : so there have been 

 men of moral genius, to whom we owe ideals of duty and 

 visions of moral perfection, which ordinary mankind could 

 never have attained : though, happily for them, they can feel 

 the beauty of a vision, which lay beyond the reach of their 

 dull imaginations, and count life well spent in shaping some 

 faint image of it in the actual world" (pp. 240-1). 



Some time during 1878 Huxley had drafted out a 

 scheme for an English Men of Science Series, which Messrs. 

 Macmillan proposed to publish. His own share was to 

 consist of Harvey and Darwin. The project, however, 

 was not carried out. 



The scientific interest of the year chiefly centres in 

 Crustaceans. Lectures on the Crayfish were given at 

 Jermyn Street to working-men (April 29-June 3), and 

 a course on Crustaceous Animals was delivered at the 

 Zoological Gardens (May 17-June 21). Besides which 

 a communication was made to the Zoological Society 

 " On the Classification and the Distribution of the Cray- 

 fishes" (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, pp. 752-88. Read 

 June 4, [878. Sci. Mem., iv, xvi, p. 275). 



Huxley also described a new kind of dissecting micro- 

 scope he had devised, in a Presidential Address to the 

 Quekett Club (J. Quekett Micros. Club, v, 1 8 78-9, pp. 

 144-5. DeHvered November 22, 1878. Sci. Mem., iv, 

 XVII, p. 316). 



1879. 



During this year Huxley was elected a Governor 

 of Eton, and in this capacity was able, later on, to 



