LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



" Nature has no designs nor intentions. All that live 

 exist only because they have adapted themselves to 

 the hard lines that Nature has laid down. We progress 

 as we comply." 



N Australia, while waiting for his ship to 

 locate and map a dangerous reef, Huxley 

 went ashore, and as he playfully ex- 

 pressed it, "ran upon another." 

 The name of the most excellent young 

 woman who was to become his wife was 

 Henrietta Heathorn; and Julian Hawthorne has dis- 

 covered that she belongs to the same good stock from 

 whence came our Nathaniel of Salem. 

 It did not take the young naturalist and this stranded 

 waif, seven thousand miles from home, long to see that 

 they had much in common. Both were eager for truth 

 both had the ability to cut the introduction and reach 

 live issues directly. " I saw you were a woman with 

 whom only honesty would answer," he wrote her 

 thirty years after. He was still in love with her. 

 Yet, she was a proud soul, and no assistant surgeon on 

 an insignificant sloop would answer her when he got 

 his surgeon's commission she would marry him. And 

 it was seven years before she journeyed to England 

 alone with that delightful object in view. He had to 

 serve for her as Jacob did for Rachel with this differ- 

 ence : Jacob loved several, but Thomas Huxley loved 

 but one. 

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