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regenerating ideas into contact with life at every 

 point, and that his championship of the new doctrines 

 had at the same time been a championship of freedom 

 and sincerity in thought and word against shams and 

 self-deceptions of every kind. It was not so much 

 the preacher of new doctrines who was welcomed, as 

 the apostle of veracity not so much the student of 

 science as the teacher of men. 



Moreover, another sentiment coloured this holiday 

 visit. He was to see again the beloved sister of his 

 boyhood. She had always prophesied his success, 

 and now after thirty years her prophecy was fulfilled 

 by his coming, and, indeed, exceeded by the manner 

 of it. 



Mr. Smalley, then London correspondent of the 

 New York Tribune, was a fellow passenger of his on 

 board the Germanic, and tells an interesting anecdote 

 of him : 



Mr. Huxley stood on the deck of the Germanic as she 

 steamed up the harbour of New York, and he enjoyed to 

 the full that marvellous panorama. At all times he was 

 on intimate terms with Nature and also with the joint 

 work of Nature and Man ; Man's place in Nature being 

 to him interesting from more points of view than one. 

 As we drew near the city this was in 1876, you will 

 remember he asked what were the tall tower and tall 

 building with a cupola, then the two most conspicuous 

 objects. I told him the Tribune and tbe Western Union 

 Telegraph buildings. "Ah," he said, "that is interesting; 

 that is American. In the Old World the first things 

 you see as you approach a great city are steeples ; here 

 you see, first, centres of intelligence." Next to those the 



