208 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP. VIII 



a formal deputation to beg that he would either 

 deliver an address, or be entertained at a public 

 dinner, or " state his views " to an interviewer I 

 suppose. He could not well refuse one of the alterna- 

 tives ; and the greater part of one day was spent in 

 preparing a short address on the geology of Tennessee, 

 which was delivered on the evening of September 7. 

 He spoke for twenty minutes, but had scarcely any 

 voice, which was not to be wondered at, as he was so 

 tired that he had kept his room the whole day, while 

 his wife received the endless string of callers. 



The next day they returned to Cincinnati ; and on 

 the 9th went on to Baltimore, where they stayed 

 with Mr. Garrett, then President of the Baltimore 

 and Ohio railway. 



The Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, for 

 which he was to deliver the opening address, had 

 been instituted by its founder on a novel basis. It 

 was devoted to post-graduate study ; the professors 

 and lecturers received incomes entirely independent 

 of the pupils they taught. Men came to study for 

 the sake of learning, not for the sake of passing some 

 future examination. The endowment was devoted 

 in the first place to the furtherance of research ; 

 the erection of buildings was put into the background. 

 " It has been my fate," commented Huxley, " to see 

 great educational funds fossilise into mere bricks and 

 mortar in the petrifying springs of architecture, with 

 nothing left to work them. A great warrior is said 

 to have made a desert and called it peace. Trustees 



