44 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. I 



ness and suffering, he had found that the most effective 

 helpers of the higher humanity were not the scientist or 

 the philosopher, but " the parson, and the sister, and the 

 Bible woman." Lastly, the strong commonsense, which 

 enabled him to see what was "within the range of 

 practical politics," and to choose for the cause which he 

 had at heart the line of least resistance, and to check, 

 sometimes to rebuke, intolerant obstinacy even on the 

 side which he was himself inclined to favour. These 

 qualities over and above his high intellectual ability 

 made him, for the comparatively short time that he 

 remained on the Board, one of its leading members. 



No less vivid is the impression left, after many 

 years, upon another member of the first School 

 Board, the Kev. Benjamin Waugh, whose life-long 

 work for the children is so well known. From 

 his recollections, written for the use of Professor 

 Gladstone, it is my privilege to quote the following 

 paragraphs : 



I was drawn to him most, and was influenced by him 

 most, because of his attitude to a child. He was on the 

 Board to establish schools for children. His motive in 

 every argument, in all the fun and ridicule he indulged 

 in, and in his occasional anger, was the child. He 

 resented the idea that schools were to train either 

 congregations for churches or hands for factories. He 

 was on the Board as a friend of children. What he 

 sought to do for the child was for the child's sake, that 

 it might live a fuller, truer, worthier life. If ever his 

 great tolerance with men with whom he differed on 

 general principles seemed to fail him for a moment, it 

 was because they seemed to him to seek other ends than 

 the child for its own sake. . . . 



His contempt for the idea of the world info which 



