man, I think, has a liberal education whose body has been 

 so trained in youth that it is the ready servant of his will, and 

 does with ease and pleasure all that, as a mechanism, it is capable 

 of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of 

 equal strength and in smooth running order, ready, like a steam 

 engine, to be turned to any kind of work and to spin the gossamers 

 as well as forge the anchors of the mind; whose mind is stored with 

 the knowledge of the great fundamental truths of nature and the 

 laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life 

 and fire, but whose passions have been trained to come to heel by a 

 vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; one who has 

 learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all 

 vileness, and to esteem others as himself. 



THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY 



