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Such, in broad outlines, seem to me to have 

 been Huxley's views as to the right teaching of 

 the professional few. But in this matter of teach- 

 ing his heart went out, beyond the limited circles 

 of professions, to the great " general many." He 

 put his hand to the work of rightly teaching these 

 also. 



Nothing, perhaps, in his whole career is more 

 striking than his coming out in 1870 from the tent 

 of the Professor to take his part in the popular 

 battles of the London School Board. Never, 

 perhaps, was he busier than he was at this time ; 

 his hands were full with scientific research and 

 scientific teaching; they were full with scientific 

 administration. Yet he knew that he had some- 

 thing to say about the teaching of the people; he 

 refused to keep for the sect of science that which 

 he felt was meant for mankind, and came forward 

 to take his part in what he believed to be a task 

 of great moment. He did not shrink from enter- 

 ing upon that which is, perhaps in many ways, 

 most foreign to a scientific career, a popular con- 

 test; for, though few could appraise more truly 

 than he the value of the thought of the few who 

 know, none were more ready than he to accept the 

 judgment of the many who feel. And the elec- 

 tors returned to him the confidence which he had 

 placed in them. 



He carried into the School Board the same 

 views as to right teaching which had guided him 

 in the academic lecture-room and in the labora- 



