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I don't mind fighting to the death in a good big row, 

 but when A and B are supplying themselves from C's 

 orchard, I don't think it is very much worth while to 

 dispute whether B filled his pockets directly from the 

 trees or indirectly helped himself to the contents of A's 

 basket. If B has so helped himself, he certainly ought 

 to say so like a man, but if I were A, I would not much 

 care whether he did or not. 



has been horribly disgusted about it, but I am 

 not sure the discipline may not have opened his eyes to 

 new and useful aspects of nature. 



The summer of 1865 saw the inception of an 

 educational experiment an International Education 

 Society to which Huxley gladly gave his support 

 as a step in the right direction. He had long been 

 convinced of the inadequacy of existing forms of 

 education survivals from the needs of a bygone 

 age to prepare for the new forms into which 

 intellectual life was passing. That educators should 

 be content to bring up the young generation in the 

 modes of thought which satisfied their forefathers 

 three centuries ago, as if no change had passed over 

 the world since then, filled him with mingled amaze- 

 ment and horror. 



The outcome of the scheme was the International 

 College, at Spring Grove, Isleworth, under the 

 headmastership of Dr. Leonhard Schmitz; one of 

 the chief members of the committee being Dr. 

 (afterwards Sir) William Smith, while at the head of 

 the Society was Richard Cobden, under whose 

 presidency it had been registered some time before. 



