52 HUXLEY 



I am not in the slightest degree impressed by your 

 bigness or your material resources, as such. Size is 

 not grandeur ; territory does not make a nation. The 

 great issue, about which hangs a true sublimity, and 

 the terror of overhanging fate, is — "What are you 

 going to do with all these things ? " . . . The 

 one condition of success, your sole safeguard, is the 

 moral worth and intellectual clearness of the indi- 

 vidual citizen. 



He was deeply interested in the fossil remains in 

 the Yale College museum which Professor Marsh had 

 unearthed from the Tertiary beds of the Far West. 

 They demonstrated what was new to him — the evolu- 

 tion of the horse on the American continent, " and 

 for the first time indicated the direct line of descent 

 of an existing animal." The fascinating story of the 

 series of discoveries, linking the one-toed genus Equus 

 of to-day with a five-toed ancestor common to it and 

 other hoofed quadrupeds, is told, with the added 

 charm which Huxley's power of clear exposition im- 

 parts, in his American Addresses. The subject will 

 have fuller treatment in the next chapter. 



In the following six years Huxley published as 

 many books, among which, and of enduring value, 

 were his monographs on the anatomy and physiology 

 of the Crayfish and on the philosophy of Hume, — 

 subjects seemingly diverse enough, but alike in the 

 problems which they suggest concerning Nature as 

 "nowhere inaccessible, and everywhere unfathom- 



