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cation of it in life. Hence his strenuous advocacy 

 of education in science for the people. Engrossed 

 as he was in scientific work, it never became to him, 

 as it did to Darwin, the only thing in life, for Huxley 

 never lost his delight in literature and art and music. 

 Keats, Tennyson, and Browning were his modern 

 favourites, with Milton and Shakespeare forming an 

 ever-increasing satisfaction. Indeed, what recrea- 

 tions he had were, as a rule, of a literary nature, 

 and he rarely took much exercise. In his home hfe 

 he exhibited to his children just the same tenderness, 

 which was somewhat hidden under his unbending 

 determination for the right, which distinguishes his 

 public intercourse. So his son says that as children 

 they felt their little hypocrisies shrivel up before him, 

 and a confidence in the unfailing rightness of his 

 moral judgment. His home happiness was one of 

 the greatest assets in his life. It was, indeed, that 

 which made the bitterness of controversy a matter 

 to be borne with comparative ease. It was in his 

 married life that he found his happiness and his 

 strength, and his tenderness for his children was 

 remarkable. Those who would realise the great 

 beauty of the private side of Huxley's life must 

 read for themselves these volumes by his son, from 

 which these sentiments are taken. 



Such was the impression of the father by the son. 

 We may, therefore, turn next to notice very briefly 

 the estimates formed of Huxley by his contem- 

 poraries in science. Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace, 

 who knew him intimately for many years, says : 

 " I find that he was my junior by two years, yet he 

 has always seemed to me to be the older, mainly, no 



