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Animals." He made this the subject of his popular 

 lectures in 1861, lecturing every week to working- 

 men on this subject, the lectures being published 

 in the Natural History Review. 



Similar lectures were given in Edinburgh in Janu- 

 ary 1862, and concerning those in the northern 

 capital Huxley says: "To my great dehght, in 

 saintly Edinburgh itself, the announcement met 

 with nothing but applause." The announcement 

 referred to was that Huxley himself entertained 

 no doubt concerning the origin of man. These 

 lectures brought him many attacks from all sorts 

 of quarters, but the enthusiasm of his audiences, 

 who were invariably impressed with his cogent 

 reasoning, gave him great satisfaction, encouraging 

 him to continue in his belief — a belief constantly 

 expressed — that a man who speaks out honestly 

 and fairly that which he believes will gain the good- 

 will and respect of his fellow-men, whether he con- 

 vinces them or not. 



The result of all this was to turn Huxley's attention 

 more and more to ethnology, and the various portions 

 of work which he did in this way were afterwards 

 incorporated in his first pubhshed book, namely, 

 Marl's Place in Nature. 



During 1860 and 1861, in addition to the promi- 

 nent part Huxley took in the continued discussion 

 over Darwin's book, he was instrumental in com- 

 mencing a scientific quarterly magazine, although 

 it was urged upon him by some of his friends that 

 this would distract him from some of what was 

 tenned his proper work. Nevertheless, the Review 

 appeared in January 1861, but Huxley found, as he 

 had been told, that with all the extra work he 



