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best of my belief) I dissected, to the horror of 

 the bedmaker, in my College rooms. 



Then the late Mr. Clark, superintendent of the 

 Museum of Zoology, and one of the kindest of men, 

 occasionally gave us beasts to cut up. I shall 

 never forget my pride of heart when a preparation 

 which I made of a hedgehog's inside was placed in 

 the Museum. 



Just as I was leaving Cambridge in 1869 or, '70 

 there arrived that great man, Sir Michael Foster, 

 who organised the revolution in which the futilities 

 of the early 19th century were blown to fragments, 

 and in their place a sound system of practical 

 instruction was created. Foster was discovered by 

 Huxley, and it was through him, and thanks to the 

 patriotism of Trinity College in creating for him the 

 post of Praelector, that Foster got this great 

 opportunity. The effect of what he did for English 

 education has been incalculably great. His pupils 

 have gone forth into all lands, and have spread the 

 art of learning and teaching wherever they have 

 come to rest. 



In thinking over the reformation wrought by 

 Michael Foster I am somehow — quite inconsist- 

 ently — ^reminded of the great scene in Guy Manner- 

 ing. I see in imagination the cold dark cave at 

 Warroch Head, where Dirk Hatteraick lurks ; he 

 plays the part of False Science in the Mystery Play, 

 and the cave is the Cave of Inanity. Then comes 

 the great flare of light, as Meg Merrilees throws the 

 torch on to the heap of flax, and her cry, "The hour 

 is come and the man!" while Harry Bertram with 

 his supporters rush in and bind False Science fast. 



