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at the fulfilment of the three objects of his address, 

 namely, to state fully and fairly his conclusions, to 

 avoid giving unnecessary offence, and thirdly, " while 

 feeling assured of the just and reasonable dealing of 

 the respectable part of the Scottish press, I naturally 

 hoped for noisy injustice and unreason from the rest, 

 seeing, as I did, the best security for the dissemina- 

 tion of my views through regions which they might 

 not otherwise reach, in the certainty of a violent 

 attack by (the Witness)." 



The applause of the audience, he says, afforded 

 him genuine satisfaction, " because it bids me 

 continue in the faith on which I acted, that a man 

 who speaks out honestly and fearlessly that which he 

 knows, and that which he believes, will always enlist 

 the good-will and the respect, however much he may 

 fail in winning the assent, of his fellow-men." 



About this time a new field of interest was opened 

 out to him, closely connected with, indeed, and com- 

 pleting, the ape question. Sir Charles Lyell was 

 engaged in writing his Antiquity of Man, and asked 

 Huxley to supply him with various anatomical data 

 touching the ape question, and later to draw him a 

 diagram illustrating the peculiarities of the newly- 

 discovered Neanderthal skull as compared with other 

 skulls. He points out in his letters to Lyell that the 

 range of cranial capacity between the highest and 

 the lowest German " one of the mediatised princes, 

 I suppose " ] or the Malayan or Peruvian, is almost 



1 The minor princes of Germany, whose territories were annexed 



