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life and work the following is IVIr. Clodd's estimate : 

 As a man he was " of spotless integrity in every 

 relation, and single-minded in every purpose, he 

 went on from strength to strength, because each step 

 made the Tightness of the path which he had chosen 

 more manifest. . . . Guided by reason 'within limits 

 which none have defined so well, — he remains alike 

 an example and an inspiration to all men for all 

 time." As a discoverer in science, an aspect of 

 Huxley which has been rather lost sight of by the 

 general public — doubtless on account of his promi- 

 nence as a controversiahst — it is well to remember 

 that the mere titles of his original scientific pai)ers 

 fill ten pages of the appendix to his biography. It, 

 nevertheless, remains true that Huxley's work has 

 been incorporated in the very body of science. His 

 original work in biology alone would take pages to 

 recount, and this aspect of Huxley's claim upon the 

 world is best stated in the words of Professor Ray 

 Lankester and Sir Michael Foster in their preface 

 to iiis Scientific Memoirs. Their words are these : 

 "■ Apart from the influence exerted by his popular 

 ■wTitings, the progress of biology during the present 

 century (that is the nineteenth) was largely due to 

 labours of his of which the general public knew 

 nothing, and that he was in some respects the most 

 original and most fertile in discovery of all his fellow- 

 workers in the same branch of science." Of his rule 

 as interpreter we have spoken on many occasions 

 in these pages, and as a controversialist. It only 

 needs to be added that nearly " all for which Huxley 

 contended has been conceded, and the rest wtR 

 follow in due time." (Clodd.) 



