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The Origin of Species the fundamental conceptions 

 of students of Nature have been completely changed. 

 And, again, in this address he returns with the same 

 emphasis to Darwin's character, and begs the accept- 

 ance of the memorial " as a symbol by which, as 

 generation after generation of students of Nature 

 enter yonder door, they shall be reminded of the 

 ideal according to which they must shape their lives, 

 if they would turn to the best account the oppor- 

 tunities offered by the great institution under your 

 charge." 



Apart from Huxley's strictly scientific work, there 

 was no subject which interested him more, and for 

 whose advancement he laboured harder, than that 

 of education in all its phases. School, technical 

 institute, and university all claimed his attention 

 in turn, and few men have done more than Huxley 

 did by liis strenuous advocacy to secure the position 

 of certain sciences, especially the biological ones, in 

 the teaching curricula of to-day. He was one of the 

 fiist to realise that while we had plenty of teaching 

 of science we had practically no scientific teaching. 

 It is not surprising, therefore, that we find a whole 

 volume of essays devoted to science and education 

 (Volume HI., Collected Essays, first printed 1893). 

 Some of these are referred to in our chapter on " Lay 

 Sermons," but we may add. a word or two here in 

 connection with the others. The chapter on " Science 

 and Culture " is devoted to combating the opinion 

 of some that culture is only to be obtained as the result 

 of a prolonged classical education. Huxley inciden- 

 tally expresses the opinion that for those who intend 

 to make science their serious life's work, or who 

 enter upon the study of medicine, or those destined 



