To Huxley it meant simply one who did not know and LITTLE 

 acknowledged he did not know, but wished to learn. JOURNEYS 

 The controlling impulse of Huxley's life was his ab- 

 solute honesty to pretend to believe a thing against 

 which one's reason revolts, in order to better one's 

 place in society, was to him the sum of all that was 

 intellectually base. 



He regarded man as an undeveloped creature, and for 

 this creature to lay the flattering unction to his soul 

 that he was in special communication with the Infinite, 

 and in possession of the secrets of the Creator, these 

 things in themselves marked man as yet in the barbaric 

 stage ^ & 



Said Huxley, "As to the final truths of creation and 

 destiny, I am an agnostic I do not know, hence I 

 neither affirm nor deny." 



UMOR and common sense usually go to- 

 gether. Huxley had a goodly stock of both. 

 "When George Eliot died there was a very 

 earnest, but ill-directed effort made to have 

 her body buried in 'Westminster Abbey. 

 Huxley, being close to the Dean, serving 

 with him on several municipal boards, was importuned 

 by Spencer to use his influence toward the desired end. 

 Q Huxley saw the incongruity of the situation, and in 

 a letter that reveals the logical mind and the direct, 

 literary, Huxley quality, he placed his gentle veto on 

 the proposition and thus saved the "enemy" the 



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