430 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY CHAP, xxil 



fallen in with Huxley's writings before Bacon's, they 

 would have produced the same effect upon him. 1 



Of the other two discourses referred to, one is the 

 opening address which he delivered as Principal at 

 the South London "Working Men's College on January 

 4, "A Liberal Education, and Where to Find It." 

 This is not a brief for science to the exclusion of 

 other teaching; no essay has insisted more strenu- 

 ously on the evils cf a one-sided education, whether 

 it be classical or scientific ; but it urged the necessity 

 for a strong tincture of science and her method, if 

 the modern conception of the world, created by the 

 spread of natural knowledge, is to be fairly under- 

 stood. If culture is based on knowledge of the best 

 that has been written and thought in the world, it is 

 incomplete without knowledge of the most important 

 factor which has transformed the medieval into the 

 modern spirit. 



Two of his most striking passages are to be found 

 in this address ; one the simile of the force behind 

 nature as the hidden chess-player; the other the 

 noble description of the end of a true education. 



Well known as it is, I venture to quote the latter 

 as an instance of his style : 



That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who 

 has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready 

 servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all 

 the work that as a mechanism it is capable of; whose 

 intellect is a clear cold logic engine, with all its parts of 



1 See vol. ii. p. 239. 



