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of science of the nineteenth century; a man of most thorough 

 and exact scholarship, with a keen, analytical mind that went 

 directly to the center of questions under consideration, and 

 powers as a writer that .gave him a wide circle of readers. 

 He was magnificently sincere in his fight for the prevalence 



Fig. 121. — Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825-1895. 



of intellectual honesty. Doubtless he will be longer remen 

 bered for this service than for anything else. 



He defended the doctrine of evolution, not only against 

 oratorical attacks like that of Bishop Wilberforce, but against 

 well-considered arguments and more worthy opponents. He 

 advanced the standing of the theory in a less direct way 

 by urging the pursuit of scientific studies by high-school 

 and university students, and by bringing science closer to 



