Huxley's wife was his companion, confidante, comrade, 

 friend. In all the annals of thinking men I cannot recall 

 another so blest, save John Stuart Mill. "I tell her 

 everything I know, or guess, or imagine, so to get it 

 straight in my own mind," he said to John Fiske. 

 In that most interesting work, "Life and Letters of 

 Huxley," compiled and edited by his son Leonard, are 

 constant references and allusions to this most ideal 

 mating. In reply to the question, Is marriage a failure? 

 I would say, " No, provided the man marries a woman 

 like Huxley's wife, and the woman marries a man like 

 Huxley." 



LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



HERE is a classic aphorism which runs 

 about this way, " Knock and the world 

 knocks with you, boost and you boost 

 alone." 



Like most popular sayings this is truth 

 turned wrong side out. 

 John Fiske once called Huxley an " appreciative icono- 

 clast." That is to say, Huxley was a most persistent 

 protester, (which is different from a protestant) and at 

 the same time, he was a friend who never faltered and 

 grew faint in time of trouble. Huxley always sniffed 

 the battle from afar and said Ha ! Ha! 

 There be those who do declare that the success of 

 Huxley was owing to his taking the tide with the flood, 

 and riding into high favor on the Darwinian wave. To 

 say that there would have been no Huxley had there 



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