43° BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS 
of science of the nineteenth century; a man of most thorough 
and exact scholarship, with a keen, analytical mind that went 
directly to the center of questions under consideration, and 
powers as a writer that gave him a wide circle of readers. 
He was magnificently sincere in his fight for the prevalence 
Fic. 121.—THomas Henry Hux vey, 1825-1895. 
of intellectual honesty. Doubtless he will be longer remem- 
bered for this service than for anything else. 
He defended the doctrine of evolution, not only against 
oratorical attacks like that of Bishop Wilberforce, but against 
well-considered arguments and more worthy opponents. He 
advanced the standing of the theory in a less direct way 
by urging the pursuit of scientific studies by high-school 
and university students, and by bringing science closer to 
