LITTLE president of the Geological and Ethnological Society, 

 JOURNEYS was appointed Royal Commissioner for the advance- 

 ment of Science; was a member of the London School 

 Board; Secretary of the Royal Society; Lord Rector 

 of the University of Aberdeen; President of the Royal 

 Society; and refused an offer to become Custodian of 

 the British Museum, a life position, and where he 

 had once applied for a clerkship. 



In letters to Darwin he occasionally signed his name 

 with all titles added, thus, " Thomas Henry Huxley, 

 M. B., M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., F. R. S. of Her Majesty's 

 Navy." 



Huxley was a forceful and epigrammatic writer, and 

 had a command of English second to no scientist that 

 England has ever produced. He was the only one of 

 his group who had a distinct literary style. 

 As a speaker he was quiet, deliberate, decisive sure, 

 and carried enough reserve caloric, so that he made his 

 presence felt in any assemblage before he said a word. 

 In oratory it is personality that gives ballast. 

 Of his forty-or-so published books, " Man's Place in 

 Nature," " Elementary Physiology " & " Classification 

 of Animals," have been translated into many languages ; 

 and now serve as text-books in various schools and 

 colleges & 



Huxley is the founder of the so-called Agnostic School, 

 which has the peculiarity of not being a school. The 

 word " agnostic" was given its vogue by Huxley. To 

 superficial people it was often used synonymously with 

 " infidel ' and " freethinker," both words of reproach. 

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