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the lack of instruction or of learned companions. He had 
the sense to see and to rejoice in the advantages offered 
thereby. When Huxley cruised, the microtome was un- 
known. But tissues of animals too large to be examited or 
too opaque were either teased by needles which destroy 
the setting or were sliced by razors in a coarse manner. 
This was tedious and necessitated skill else considerable 
portions would be destroyed, misplaced or mutillated. 
But Huxley did more, be it known, through surmounting 
these obstacles than the army of highly pampered stu- 
dents of today who are provided with Minot’s giant mi- 
crotome, plus many accessories, by means of which tis- 
sues are embedded, hardened, cut to an incredible thin- 
ness and furnished in series of 100 or 500 sections. The 
study of forms has been revolutionized, and new methods 
require volumes for their obituaries since they pass away 
to make room for others. Our boys stuff their heads in 
college with the thoughts and methods of other men and 
all to little account. Huxley at 22, on the war vessel, did 
effective work which fools have said was due to genius 
though they have never told us the source of genius. Study 
and imitate Huxley, oh boy of poverty and of mediocrity, 
as portrayed by this writer rather than in the volumes 
from which he has segregated the data and you will see 
that latent genius is yours, that “self-reliance” is the fa- 
ther of genius and patient absorption its mother. 
While Huxley had and genius possesses “‘self-reliance’’ 
it does not include self-esteem and self-indulgence. Self- 
reliance is an unconscious reliance upon acertain not-self 
within. Genius always alights upon the banner of that 
man. Huxley never accomplished anything with a homo- 
geneous oil-immersion, one-tenth. His soul qualities did 
not require such a tool. An oil-immersion has NEVER en- 
abled a man to get wisdom or a reputation from genius, 
since he would then rely on the lens and not on intuition. . 
Huxley was driven, on the Rattlesnake, to rely on a some- 
