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Nor must we forget his labours in the cause of medical 

 and technical education. In all cases his attention was 

 primarily directed to main principles, details came after- 

 wards. And though he warmly and successfully advocated 

 the claims of natural science, he was fully alive to those 

 of other studies, and to the importance of proportion and 

 perspective in every educational scheme. The systems 

 of these later days would be greatly improved by a strong 

 infusion of that wisdom for which Huxley was pre- 

 eminent. 



As a popular lecturer he did much to disseminate a 

 knowledge of and create an interest in biological science 

 among lay audiences, and the high level he attained in 

 such efforts was partly the result of taking them seriously. 

 Eloquence was associated with lucidity and strict scientific 

 accuracy with imagination. The American Addresses were 

 perhaps the most notable of such utterances. The 

 numerous courses of lectures to working-men were 

 masterpieces of their kind, and gave him as much pleasure 

 in the delivery as the audience in the hearing. Nor is 

 this surprising, for during the whole of his career his 

 warmest sympathies were with the working-classes, an 

 attitude known and appreciated by them. This is well 

 illustrated by an anecdote narrated by the late Prof. 

 Mivart : — 



"I recollect going with him and Mr. John Westlake, Q.C., 

 to a meeting of artizans in the Blackfriars Road, to whom he 

 gave a friendly address. He felt a strong interest in working- 

 men, and was much beloved by them. On one occasion, having 

 taken a cab home, on his arrival there, when he held out his fare 

 to the cabman, the latter replied, ' Oh no, Professor, I have had 

 too much pleasure and profit from hearing you lecture to take 

 any money from your pocket — proud to have driven you, sir " 

 (" Reminiscences of T. H. Huxley," Nineteenth Century, 

 December 1897). 



