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doctrine of the Incarnation as warmly as that of the 

 Trinity), it may be well to leave things as they are. 



All this is for your own eye. There is nothing in 

 substance that I have not said publicly, but I do not feel 

 called upon to say it over again, or get mixed up in an 

 utterly wearisome controversy. I am, yours faithfully, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



However, he was unsuccessful in his proposal that 

 a selection be made of passages for reading from the 

 Bible ; the Board refused to become censors. On 

 May 10 he raised the question of the diversion from 

 the education of poor children of charitable bequests, 

 which ought to be applied to the augmentation of 

 the school fund. In speaking to this motion he said 

 that the long account of errors and crimes of the 

 Catholic Church was greatly redeemed by the fact 

 that that Church had always borne in mind the 

 education of the poor, and had carried out the great 

 democratic idea that the soul of every man was of 

 the same value in the eyes of his Maker. 



The next matter of importance in which he took 

 part was on June 14, when the Committee on the 

 Scheme of Education presented its first report. Dr. 

 Gladstone writes : 



It was a very voluminous document. The Committee 

 had met every week, and, in the words of Huxley, " what 

 it had endeavoured to do, was to obtain some order and 

 system and uniformity in important matters, whilst in 

 comparatively unimportant matters they thought some 

 play should be given for the activity of the bodies of men 

 into whose hands the management of the various schools 

 should be placed." The recommendations were considered 



