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LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY chap. 



that he was sometimes appealed to by both parties in a dis- 

 pute. He was a man to be trusted with the confidence of 

 his friends. " Yes, you are quite right about ' loyal,' " he 

 writes to Mr. Knowles, " I love my friends and hate my 

 enemies — which may not be in accordance with the Gospel, 

 but I have found it a good wearing creed for honest men." 

 But he only regarded as " enemies " those whom he found 

 to be double-dealers, shufflers, insincere, untrustworthy; a 

 fair opponent he respected, and he could agree to differ with 

 a friend without altering his friendship. 



A lifelong impression of him was thus summed up by 

 Dr. A. R. Wallace :— 



I find that he was my junior by two years, yet he has always 

 seemed to me to be the older, mainly no doubt, because from the 

 very first time I saw him (now more than forty years ago), I 

 recognised his vast superiority in ability, in knowledge, and in 

 all those qualities that enable a man to take a foremost place in 

 the world. I owe him thanks for much kindness and for assist- 

 ance always cordially given, and although we had many differ- 

 ences of opinion, I never received from him a harsh or unkind 

 word. 



To those who could only judge him from his contro- 

 versial literature, or from a formal business meeting, he 

 often appeared hard and unsympathetic, but never to those 

 who saw beneath the surface. In personal intercourse, if 

 he disliked a man — and a strong individuality has strong 

 likes and dislikes — he would merely veil his feelings under 

 a superabundant politeness of the chilliest kind; but to any 

 one admitted to his friendship he was sympathy itself. And 

 thus, although I have heard him say that his friends, in 

 the fullest sense of the word, could be reckoned on the 

 fingers of one hand, the impression he made upon all who 

 came within the circle of his friendship was such that quite 

 a number felt themselves to possess his intimacy, and one 

 wrote, after his death : " His many private friends are al- 

 most tempted to forget the public loss, in thinking of the 

 qualities which so endeared him to them all." 



Both the speculative and the practical sides of his in- 

 tellect were strongly developed. On the one hand, he had 



