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sheets as yet) seems to show a very philosophical turn of mind. 

 It is very satisfactory to find the ideas one has been fighting 

 for beginning to take root. 



I do not suppose my own personal contributions to science 

 will ever be anything very grand, but I shall be well content if 

 I have reason to believe that I have done something to stir up 

 others. — Ever yours faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



To the same : — 



April, 1859. 



My dear Hooker ... I pity you — as for the MSS. it is one 

 of those cases for which penances were originally devised. 

 What do you say to standing on your head in the garden for 

 one hour per diem for the next week ? It would be a relief. . . . 



I suppose you will be at the Phil. Club next Monday. In 

 the meanwhile don't let all the flesh be worried ofif your bones 

 (there isn't much as it is). — Ever yours faithfully, 



T. H. Huxley. 



14 Waverley Place, July 2g, 1859. 



My dear Hooker — I meant to have written to you yester- 

 day, but things put it out of my head. If there is to be any 

 fund raised at all, I am quite of your mind that it should be a 

 scientific fund and not a mere naturalists' fund. Sectarianism 

 in such matters is ridiculous, and besides that, in this particular 

 case it is bad policy. For the word " Naturalist " unfortunately 

 includes a far lower order of men than chemist, physicist, or 

 mathematician. You don't call a man a mathematician because 

 he has spent his life in getting as far as quadratics ; but every 

 fool who can make bad species and worse genera is a " Natural- 

 ist " ! — save the mark ! Imagine the chemists petitioning the 



Crown for a Pension for P if he wanted one ! and yet he 



really is a philosopher compared to poor dear A . 



" Naturalists " therefore are far more likely to want help 

 than any other class of scientific men, and they would be greatly 

 damaging their own interests if they formed an exclusive fund 

 for themselves. — Ever yours faithfully, T. H. Huxley. 



