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of research nothing could exceed his generous assistance, 

 sympathy, and encouragement. These qualities were, above 

 all others, the main causes of the devoted attachment he won 

 from every one who was brought much into personal contact 

 with him. 



In one of the recent biographical notices which have 

 appeared of Huxley it is said that " no man of more reverent 

 religious feeling ever trod this earth." This statement has 

 much of truth in it. If the term " religious " be limited to 

 acceptance of the formularies of one of the current creeds of 

 the world, it cannot be applied to Huxley, but no one could 

 be intimate with him without feeling that he possessed a deep 

 reverence for " whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things 

 are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are 

 pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of 

 good report," and an abhorrence of all that is the reverse of 

 these, and that, although he found difficulty in expressing it 

 in definite words, he had a pervading sense of adoration for 

 the infinite, very much akin to the highest religion. 



