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ON SCIENCE AND ART IN RELATION 

 EDUCATION 

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''HEN a man is honored by such a request as that 

 which reached me from the authorities of your institu- 

 tion some time ago, I think the first thing that occurs 

 to him is that which occurred to those who were bidden 

 to the feast in the Gospel to begin to make an excuse; 

 and probably all the excuses suggested on that famous 

 occasion crop up in his mind after the other, including 

 his "having married a wife," as reasons for not doing 

 what he is asked to do. But, in my own case, and on 

 this particular occasion, there were other difficulties of 

 a sort peculiar to the time, and more or less personal 

 to myself; because I felt that, if I came amongst you, 

 I should be expected, and, indeed, morally compelled, 

 to speak upon the subject of Scientific Education. And 

 then there arose in my mind the recollection of a fact, 

 which probably no one here but myself remembers; 

 namely, that some fourteen years ago I was the guest 

 of a citizen of yours, who bears the honoured name of 

 Rathbone, at a very charming and pleasant dinner given 

 by the Philomathic Society; and I there and then, and 



1 This address was delivered before the members of the Liver- 

 pool Institute, 1882. It appears in Science and Education, Col- 

 lected Essays, III: 160-188. As Huxley says, he had spoken on 

 a similar subject at Liverpool in 1869, and he sums up the main 

 points of that speech in the beginning of this one. The notes 

 of this after-dinner speech were published in Macmillan's Maga- 

 zine and in Science and Education pp. 111-133. 



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