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quality. This is the mind which has built up modern science to 

 its present perfection, which has laid one stone upon the other 

 with such care that it to-day offers to the world the most complete 

 monument to human reason. This is the mind which is destined 

 to govern the world in the future, and to solve the problems per- 

 taining to politics and humanity as well as to inanimate nature. 

 It is the only mind which appreciates the imperfections of the 

 human reason, and is thus careful to guard against them. It 

 is the only mind that values the truth as it should be valued and 

 ignores all personal feeling in its pursuit. Prof. H. A. Rowland. 



This is the type of mind a scientific training is intended 

 to cultivate ; and it is easier for a camel to pass through 

 a needle's eye than it is to enter into the kingdom of 

 science without it. We use the simile with all reverence 

 in this connection, because science is an uplifting gospel 

 as well as a revelation. Huxley described himself as 

 " almost a fanatic for the sanctity of truth." Truthful- 

 ness, in his eyes, was the cardinal virtue without which 

 neither science nor society could possess stability. The 

 motive of all scientific work is to arrive at the truth, 

 and Huxley's life was the apotheosis of this passion for 

 veracity. 



If absolute loyalty to truth, involving complete self-abnegation 

 in face of the evidence, be the ideal aim of the scientific inquirer, 

 there have been few men in whom that ideal has been so perfectly 

 realised as in Huxley. If ever he were tempted by some fancied 

 charm of speculation to swerve a hair's breadth from the strict 

 line of fact, the temptation was promptly slaughtered and made 

 no sign. For intellectual integrity he was a spotless Sir Galahad. 

 I believe there was nothing in life which he dreaded so much as 

 the sin of allowing his reason to be hoodwinked by personal 

 predilections, or whatever Francis Bacon would have called 

 " idols of the cave." John Fiske. 



The love of truth is the beginning and the end of 

 wisdom. It is with the astronomer as he searches the 

 skies from his watch tower and it animates the naturalist 

 as he scrutinises muds gathered from the ocean bed ; it 



