Q6 HUXLEY 



anything in an elementary course of science. He 

 sums up his ideal of the object of education thus : 

 " Education has two great ends to which everything 

 less must be subordinate. The one of these is to 

 increase knowledge ; the other is to develop the love 

 of right and the hatred of ^vrong." 



In a further paper, published in pamphlet form 

 m 1854, Huxley discusses the educational value of 

 physiological science from the points of view of its 

 position as a branch of knowledge, its value as mental 

 discipline, its worth as practical information, and at 

 what period it should be made a branch of education. 



Then follows a lecture, delivered in 1861, on 

 "The Study of Zoology," which is interesting as 

 contaim'ng Huxley's ideas of how students should 

 be taught ; and, further, it is interesting to note 

 that the methods advocated by him are practically 

 those which are carried out in all ovir great scientific 

 schools to-day. He says that the best model for 

 teaching physical science is that which is based 

 upon the tluree elements of lectures, demonstrations, 

 and examinations ; the particular value of each of 

 wliich he elaborates. 



The latter half of the volume at the present under 

 notice deals with quite a number of entirely different 

 topics. One of these, wliich is entitled " On the 

 Physical Basis of Life," was a lay sermon dehvered 

 in Edinburgh, and afterwards published in the 

 Fortnightly Review. It was the first of a series of 

 Sunday evening addresses upon non-religious topics, 

 instituted by the Rev. J. Cranbrook. Huxley him- 

 self said that this address was intended to con- 

 tain a plain and non-technical statement of one of 

 the great tendencies of modem biological thought, 



