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thing which I call intuition and which the worid has call- 
ed genius. Here is a lesson for every young microscopist 
and every naturalist who will study this volume. 
Huxley became president of the Royal Microscopical 
Society but he never ‘‘fought lenses.” The world will 
never know him as a microscopist, but the microscopists 
will always claim him. Of course, if he CcoULD have used 
modern lenses and appliances without the sacrifice of any 
advantage he possessed, his discoveries would have been 
far greater. For example, with all his study of Medusa, 
he was never able to discover its nervous system which 
the highest powers now reveal. 
We are told that Huxley was not in any sense of the 
word a collecting naturalist nor did the naming and class- 
ifying of species interest him. In such practices, lays the 
key to the insignificance of nearly all American college 
professors and the waste of time by all her students. Hux- 
ley wanted to examine “the architectural and engineer- 
ing part of the business ; the working out of the wonder- 
ful unity of plan in thousands of diverse constructions, 
and the modifications of similar apparatuses to serve dif- 
ferent ends.” 
Of Huxley’s magnificent contributions to the up-root- 
ing of theological dogma, this is not the place to speak 
and those interested are referred to Mitchell’s sketch 
which is so sensible, so just and so free from abstruse 
technicalities that every boy of sixteen who takes kindly 
to Nature should be presented with a copy at the same 
time that he acquires a microscope. While Huxley was a 
prominent contributor to the Quarterly Journal of Micro- 
scopical Science he was a true philosopher. While he was 
not a churchman, he saw the Infinite Omnipresence in 
nature and adored it. 
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