PREFACE 



Although a man by his works and personality 

 shall have made his mark upon the age he lives in, 

 yet when he has passed away and his influence 

 with him, the next generation, and still more the 

 succeeding one, will know little of this work, of his 

 ideals and of the goal he strove to win, although for 

 the student his scientific work may always live. 



Thomas Henry Huxley may come to be re- 

 membered by the public merely as the man who held 

 that we were descended from the ape, or as the 

 apostle of Darwinism, or as the man who worsted 

 Bishop Wilberforce at Oxford. 



To prevent such limitation, and to afford more 

 intimate and valuable reasons for remembrance of 

 this man of science and lover of his fellow-men, I 

 have gathered together passages, on widely differ- 



