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championship of the new doctrines had at the same time 

 been a championship of freedom and sincerity in thought 

 and word against shams and self-deceptions of every kind. 

 It was not so much the preacher of new doctrines who was 

 welcomed, as the apostle of veracity — not so much the stu- 

 dent of science as the teacher of men. 



Moreover, another sentiment coloured this holiday visit. 

 He was to see again the beloved sister of his boyhood. She 

 had always prophesied his success, and now after thirty 

 years her prophecy was fulfilled by his coming, and, in- 

 deed, exceeded by the manner of it. 



Mr. Smalley, then London correspondent of the New 

 York Tribune, was a fellow passenger of his on board the 

 Germanic, and tells an interesting anecdote of him : — 



Mr. Huxley stood on the deck of the Germanic as she 

 steamed up the harbour of New York, and he enjoyed to the 

 full that marvellous panorama. At all times he was on intimate 

 terms with Nature and also with the joint work of Nature 

 and Man ; Man's Place in Nature being to him interesting from 

 more points of view than one. As we drew near the city — 

 this was in 1876, you will remember — he asked what were the 

 tall tower and tall building with a cupola, then the two most 

 conspicuous objects. I told him the Tribune and the Western 

 Union Telegraph buildings. " Ah," he said, " that is interest- 

 ing; that is American. In the Old World the first things you see 

 as you approach a great city are steeples ; here you see, first, 

 centres of intelligence." Next to those the tug-boats seemed to 

 attract him as they tore fiercely up and down and across the 

 bay. He looked long at them and finally said, " If I were not a 

 man I think I should Hke to be a tug." They seemed to him 

 the condensation and complete expression of the energy and 

 force in which he delighted. 



The personal welcome he received from the friends he 

 visited was of the warmest. On the arrival of the Germanic 

 the travellers were met by Mr. Appleton the publisher, and 

 carried of? to his country house at Riverdale. While his 

 wife was taken to Saratoga to see what an American summer 

 resort was like, he himself went on the 9th to New Haven, 

 to inspect the fossils at Yale College, collected from the 

 Tertiary deposits of the Far West by Professor Marsh, with 



