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U X L E Y 



HAT was a great group of thinkers to 

 which Huxley belonged. The Mutual 

 Admiration Society forms the sunshine 

 in which souls grow great men come in 

 groups <> & 



Sir Francis Galton says there were four- 

 teen men in Greece in the time of Peri- 

 cles, who made Athens possible. A man 

 alone is only a part of a man. 

 Praxiteles by himself could have done 

 nothing. Ictinus might have drawn the 

 plans for the Parthenon, but without 

 Pericles, the noble building would have 

 remained forever the stuff which dreams 

 are made of. And they do say that with- 

 out Aspasia, Pericles would have been a 

 mere dreamer of dreams, and Walter 

 Savage Landor overheard enough of their 

 conversation to prove it. 

 William Morris and seven men working 

 with him formed the Pre-Raphaelite 

 Brotherhood and gave the workers and 

 doers of the world an impetus they yet 

 feel. Concord and Cambridge had seven 

 men who induced the Muses to come to 

 America and take out papers. 

 These men of the Barbizon School tinted 

 the entire art world : Millet, Rousseau, 



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