CHAPTER XVII 

 1861-1863 



IT has been seen that the addition of journalistic work 

 in science to the mass of original research and teaching 

 work upon which Huxley was engaged, called forth 

 a remonstrance from both Lyell and Darwin. To 

 Hooker it seemed still more serious that he was 

 dividing his allegiance, and going far afield in philo- 

 sophy, instead of concentrating himself upon natural 

 science. He writes : 



I am sorry to hear that you are so poorly, and wish I 

 could help you to sit down and work quietly at pure 

 science. You have got into a whirlpool, and should 

 strike out vigorously at the proper angle, not attempt to 

 breast the whole force of the current, nor yet give in to it. 

 Do take the counsel of a quiet looker-on and withdraw to 

 your books and studies in pure Natural History ; let 

 modes of thought alone. You may make a very good 

 naturalist, or a very good metaphysician (of that I know 

 nothing, don't despise me), but you have neither time nor 

 place for both. 



However, it must be remarked that this love of 

 philosophy, not recently acquired either, was only 

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