CHAPTER VI 



DICTA HUXLEYANIA 



Few men could put more into a single short sentence 

 or two than could Huxley. His lectures, addresses, 

 and letters abound in epigrammatical sayings, which 

 frequently throw a brilliant light upon the question 

 under discussion. On account of this it is com- 

 paratively easy to find out exactly what Huxley 

 thought concerning a great many various topics, 

 and one has not to wade through long pages of 

 arguments to discover precisely what he meant. 

 And since it is one of the points of interest in a 

 biography of any great man to state his ophiions 

 on various current topics, we may allow Huxley to 

 speak for himself on some of those which were much 

 to the front in his day, selecting them from the vari- 

 ous contents of the volumes of the Collected Essays. 

 They may show the many-sided mind of the man, 

 his clearness of thought, his lucidity of expression, 

 his directness of statement. Such a selection might 

 be added to indefinitely, but the few that are given 

 here will afford some idea of Huxley's style, and, at 

 the same time, will give the reader Huxley's opinions 

 on various topics in the briefest possible manner. 

 The headings given are the present writer's. 



Differences in Men. — " The most considerable 

 difference I note among men (he concludes) is not 



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