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and certainly the foremost, of the paladins of Darwin in those great 

 years of battle which followed the publication of The Origin of 

 Species in 1859. 



Yet no man reaches completeness; so the one lack of his teaching 

 lay in its too scanty reference and impulse to living "natural 

 history"; though he would at times mention how Buff on had taught 

 it, or how Darwin had so especially advanced it, with his studies 

 of the inter-relation of flowers and insects, the strange sex-ways of 

 cirripedes, the soil-making of worms, and other bright disclosures 

 of strange scenes in the drama of Life. All this is "Ecology", as 

 Haeckel called it, in his admirably reasoned Generelle Morphologie 

 — his first and greatest work, of which the long-continued neglect 

 by his brother-biologists, even though evolutionists, turned him to 

 his later and more popular endeavours. Indeed, this book (now 

 valued and hard to obtain) followed surprisingly soon upon the 

 Origin of Species, and developed its main theses with vigour, fullness, 

 and intensity, surpassing even Huxley's sturdy championship, but 

 also often went beyond those of Herbert Spencer's long famous (and 

 still not to be neglected) Principles of Biology. 



Huxley was, however, too great not to know his own limitation 

 as well as his powers ; he even summed these together, as he indeed 

 said to one of us: "You see, I should have been an engineer!" Yet, 

 to do him justice, though he never took us for an excursion, nor 

 even sent us to the Zoo or Kew, he did the writer the inestimable 

 kindness of introducing him to Roscoff, that most admirable of 

 Marine Zoological Stations, founded by his friend Lacaze-Duthiers, 

 on the northern coast of Brittany, where the Channel fauna is at 

 its richest and best, and where students were trained, and investi- 

 gators encouraged, to search the shore and dredge the bottoms for 

 their material, along with Lacaze's naturalist-fishermen, instead of 

 having all bought for them or brought to them, as too easily 

 elsewhere. 



Lacaze, though the skilled and subtle anatomist to Huxley's 

 admiration, had not Huxley's comparative powers. It was as field- 

 naturalist that he surpassed him; with his lecture-table magnifi- 

 cently covered with aquaria, teeming with all the living wonders of 

 the sea by turns ; these being sent up weekly not only from Roscoff , 

 but also from his Mediterranean station at Banyuls, on the coast 

 of the Eastern Pyrenees. And when Christmas and Easter vacations 

 came, his best students were mobilised and packed off to Banyuls, 

 as for the long summer vacation to Roscoff ; for even the less willing 

 found it hard not to follow so splendidly life-intoxicated a leader ; in 

 this respect the ver}^ peer of Darwin himself. 



Enough, then, to justify the need of continual return to nature- 

 study, linked with active research, both with reflective interpreta- 

 tion. All three moods and modes of inquiry have been well-marked 



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