XIV INTRODUCTION 



with his works. His son says: "His visit was so far like 

 a royal progress, that unless he entered a city disguised 

 under the name of Jones or Smith, he was liable not merely 

 to be interviewed, but to be called upon to 'address a few 

 words to the citizens.' . . . His reception in America 

 may be said to emphasize his definita establishment in 

 the first rank of English thinkers. It was a signal testimony 

 to the wide extent of his influence, hardly suspected, in- 

 deed, by himself; an influence due above all to the fact 

 that he did not allow his studies to stand apart from the 

 moving problems of existence, but brought new and re- 

 generating ideas into contact with life at every point, and 

 that his championship of the new doctrines had at the same 

 time been a championship of freedom and sincerity in 

 thought and word against shams and self-deceptions of 

 every kind. It was not so much the preacher of new doc- 

 trines who was welcomed, as the apostle of veracity — not 

 so much the teacher of science as the teacher of men." 



Upon his return from America Huxley took up again 

 various phases of his educational work. In addition he 

 undertook a study of the philosophy of Hume and wrote 

 a biography of that great thinker that will long be a master- 

 piece. Though his contributions to science based upon 

 his own research were now not so voluminous as in the 

 preceding period, his literary output increased greatly, 

 and new scholastic honors were heaped upon him. 



For a few years longer Huxley continued his manifold 

 activities. He was now at the very height of his power 

 and fame. Keenly interested in all affairs of his time, 

 he was constantly writing and speaking on scientific, 

 medical, and technical education. He was elected President 

 of the Royal Society in 1883, and in the same year was 

 called on to deliver the Rede Lecture at the University 



