ANALOGY — TRUE AND FALSE 51 



tinguished from the inorganic, the vital as distin- 

 guished from the mechanical. Eead the learned 

 address of the president of some local scientific or 

 literary society, and then turn to one of Professor 

 Huxley's trenchant papers. The difference is just 

 that between weapons in an armory and weapons in 

 the hands of trained soldiers. Huxley's will and 

 purpose, or his personality, pervade and vitalize his 

 material and make it his own, while the learned 

 president sustains only an accidental and mechanical 

 relation to what he has to say. Happy is the writer 

 who can lop off or cut out from his page everything 

 to which he sustains only a secondary and mechani- 

 cal relation. 



The summing up of the matter would then seem 

 to be, that there is an analogy of rhetoric and an 

 analogy of science ; a likeness that is momentary 

 and accidental, giving rise to metaphor and parable ; 

 and a correspondence that is fundamental, arising 

 from the universality of law. 



