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Governor Eyre, after the outbreak at Morant Bay. 1 

 ' Hell had broken loose, and the fire must be quenched 

 at any cost.' Perhaps he was right ; perhaps he was 

 wrong. The question at the time produced an extra- 

 ordinary cleavage among intimate friends ; but not, to 

 my knowledge, did it produce any permanent estrange- 

 ment. Huxley and Spencer fought like brothers under 

 a common flag ; Hooker and myself, equally fraternal, 

 under the opposite one. We surely did not love each 

 other less afterwards because of this temporary diver- 

 gence of judgment. I fervently trust that all our 

 differences may have a similar end. 



* It is related,' says Dr. Garnet, ' that, fascinated by 

 the grand figure of Michael Angelo, he [Carlyle] once 

 announced his intention of writing his life.' He would 

 have thus added to his picture-gallery ' The Hero as 

 Artist.' Carlyle would have found ' The Hero as Man 

 of Science ' a more fitting theme. He had mastered 

 the * Principia,' and was well aware of the vast revolu- 

 tionary change wrought, not in Science only, but in the 

 whole world of thought, by the theory ef gravitation. 

 The apparently innocent statement, that every particle 

 of matter attracted every other particle with a force 

 which was a function of the distance between them, 

 carried the mind away from the merely falling atoms 

 of Epicurus and Lucretius to conceptions of molecular 

 forces. By their aid we look intellectually into the 

 architecture of crystals. But the inquiring spirit of man 

 cannot stop there. It now recognises, with what ulti- 



1 1 may here say that when speaking to Governor Eyre upon the 

 subject, he declared to me that he knew as little, at the time, about 

 the floggings of women and other cruelties, as I did. But though 

 he might have mitigated the severity of the verdict against himself 

 by shifting the odium on to his subordinates, he refused to do so, 

 and accepted all the blame. 



