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for a business career, a classical education is a mis- 

 take. He lays great stress upon tlie necessity of 

 both employer and employed having the opportunity 

 of clearly studying the conditions of social life, in 

 order that they may come to some common agree- 

 ment for action, and such knowledge can be obtained 

 by no other method than by that of physical re- 

 searches. In that way alone will men ever come to 

 deal ^\•ith sociological matters on scientific principles. 

 One wonders whether if Huxley were alive to-day 

 he would think that any great steps had been made 

 towards the attainment of that most desirable object. 

 We fear not. 



In his addi-ess to the members of the Liverpool 

 Institution on " Science and Art and Education," 

 Huxley takes the opportunity of urging upon his 

 hearers the necessity of the study of English writers, 

 from the point of view of obtaining literary culture, 

 because, he says, that v\'hile the French and Germans 

 study their languages the average Enghshman does 

 not. And this subject, English literature, together 

 with instruction in either music or painting, he con- 

 siders necessary for the development of the aesthetic 

 side of the mind. He also emphasises in this same 

 address the great intellectual value of knowuig Pome 

 other language besides one's o^vn — a truth we have 

 possibly come to reahse somewhat more fully to-day. 



In his Rectorial address to the students of Aber- 

 deen University, also pubhshed in this volume, 

 Huxley takes the opportunity of describing the actual 

 condition of the universities in contrast with his ideal 

 of what they should be. More particularly, as was 

 natural to the audience he was addressing, he spoke 

 of medical education, and while he maintained that 



