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the poetical original shape of my very ugly name." A 

 large part of his library was presented to the Royal 

 College of Science, and the Registrar, in returning 

 thanks for the gift, communicated the resolution which 

 had been adopted : — 



" That the library shall be kept in the room formerly occupied 

 by the Dean, which shall be called ' The Huxley Laboratory 

 for Biological Research,' and be devoted to the prosecution of 

 original Researches in Biological Science, with which the name 

 of Professor Huxley is inseparably associated " (Life, ii, 

 p. 284). 



The first of the series of essays upon political philo- 

 sophy, " The Natural Inequality of Men," appeared in 

 the Nineteenth Century for January (Coll. Essays, i, p. 2qo). 

 It deals with the inexact ideas regarding natural equality, 

 rights in property, and so on, which first attained pro- 

 minence in the writings of Rousseau, and had recently 

 been promulgated afresh. The second of the series, 

 " Natural and Political Rights," in the February number 

 (Coll. Essays, i, p. 336), analyzes the views of Henry 

 George, as given in Progress and Poverty, which is essen- 

 tially a presentment of Rousseauism recast. 



The third essay, "Capital, the Mother of Labour," in 

 the March number (Coll. Essays, ix, p. 147), deals with 

 " An Economical Problem discussed from a Physiological 

 Point of View," arriving at the following conclusions : — 



" I think it may not be too much to say that, of all the political 

 delusions which are current in this queer world, the very stupidest 

 are those which assume that labour and capital are necessarily 

 antagonistic ; that all capital is produced by labour and therefore, 

 by natural right, is the property of the labourer ; that the possessor 

 of capital is a robber who preys on the workman and appropriates 

 to himself that which he has had no share in producing. 



" On the contrary, capital and labour are, necessarily, close 

 allies ; capital is never a product of human labour alone ; it 



