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As late as 1893 ne planned-out a series of working 

 men's lectures on the Bible, " in which he should 

 present to the unlearned the results of scientific study 

 of the documents, and do for theology what he had 

 done for zoology thirty years before " ; and although 

 this scheme, the outline of which Mr. Leonard 

 Huxley copies from his father's note-book, was never 

 carried out, " it was constantly before Huxley's mind 

 during the two years left to him." l Before leaving 

 the subject of his general influence as an educational 

 reformer, it should be noted that he worked with an 

 apostolic fervour to improve the quality of the 

 teachers as the only security for thorough education 

 of the taught. He established regular classes for the 

 training of "scientific missionaries," 2 as he described 

 them; pressed his views on technical education on the 

 City guilds and other influential bodies, and kept before 

 his students, as the mark of their "high calling," 



the cultivation of that enthusiasm for truth, that 

 fanaticism of veracity which is a greater possession 

 than much learning, a nobler gift than the power of 

 increasing knowledge; by so much greater than these 

 as the moral nature of man is greater than the intel- 

 lectual. 3 



Owing to a serious breakdown in health, Huxley 

 was compelled, after fourteen months' service on the 

 School Board, to resign his membership. "A 

 1 II. 345. 2 1. 377. 3 Coll. Essays, iii. p. 205. 



