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of his mind was architectonic. To regard Huxley 

 as a compound of Boanerges and Iconoclast is to 

 show entire misapprehension of the aims which in- 

 spired his labours. In Biology his discovery of the 

 structure of the Medusas laid the foundations of 

 modern zoology ; his theory of the origin of the skull 

 gave a firm basis to vertebrate morphology ; and his 

 luminous exposition of the pedigree of man imported 

 order where confusion had reigned. In the more im- 

 portant matter of Education he formulated principles 

 whose adoption would bring out the best that is in 

 every scholar, and inspire him with love of whatever 

 "is of good report"; while his invention of the 

 laboratory system of zoological teaching has been 

 adopted with the best results in every school and uni- 

 versity of repute. In Theology he separated the 

 accidental elements from the essential, leaving as 

 residuum a religion that, coordinated with the needs 

 and aspirations of human nature, would find its high- 

 est motive and its permanency in an ethic based on 

 sympathy. 



