Thomas Henry Huxley, vol 3

Thomas Henry Huxley, vol 3

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LIFE AND LETTERS OF THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
BY HIS SON
LEONARD HUXLEY.

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOLUME 3.
(PLATE: PORTRAIT OF T.H. HUXLEY, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH
BY DOWNEY, 1890. MCQUEEN, SC.)
CONTENTS.

CHAPTER 3.
1. 1887.

CHAPTER 3.
2. 1887.

CHAPTER 3.
3. 1888.

CHAPTER 3.

4. 1888.

CHAPTER 3.
5. 1889.

CHAPTER 3.
6. 1889-1890.

CHAPTER 3.
7. 1890-1891.

CHAPTER 3.
8. 1890-1891.

CHAPTER 3.
9. 1892.

CHAPTER 3.
10. 1892.

CHAPTER 3.
11. 1892.

CHAPTER 3.
12. 1893.

CHAPTER 3.

13. 1894.

CHAPTER 3.
14. 1895.

CHAPTER 3.
15.

CHAPTER 3.
16. 1895.
APPENDIX 1.
APPENDIX 2.
APPENDIX 3.
APPENDIX 4.
INDEX.

CHAPTER 3.
1.
1887.
[The first half of 1887, like that of the preceding year, was chequered
by constant returns of ill-health.] "As one gets older," [he writes in a
New Year's letter to Sir J. Donnelly, "hopes for oneself get more
moderate, and I shall be content if next year is no worse than the last.
Blessed are the poor in spirit!" [The good effects of the visit to Arolla
had not outlasted the winter, and from the end of February he was
obliged to alternate between London and the Isle of Wight.
Nevertheless, he managed to attend to a good deal of business in the
intervals between his periodic flights to the country, for he continued to
serve on the Royal Society Council, to do some of the examining work
at South Kensington, and to fight for the establishment of adequate
Technical Education in England. He attended the Senate and various
committees of the London University and of the Marine Biological

Association.
Several letters refer to the proposal--it was the Jubilee year--to
commemorate the occasion by the establishment of the Imperial
Institute. To this he gladly gave his support; not indeed to the merely
social side; but in the opportunity of organising the practical
applications of science to industry he saw the key to success in the
industrial war of the future. Seconding the resolution proposed by Lord
Rothschild at the Mansion House meeting on January 12, he spoke of
the relation of industry to science--the two great developments of this
century. Formerly practical men looked askance at science, "but within
the last thirty years, more particularly," continues the report in "Nature"
(volume 33 page 265) "that state of things had entirely changed. There
began in the first place a slight flirtation between science and industry,
and that flirtation had grown into an intimacy, he must almost say
courtship, until those who watched the signs of the times saw that it
was high time that the young people married and set up an
establishment for themselves. This great scheme, from his point of
view, was the public and ceremonial marriage of science and industry."
Proceeding to speak of the contrast between militarism and
industrialism, he asked whether, after all, modern industry was not war
under the forms of peace. The difference was the difference between
modern and ancient war, consisting in the use of scientific weapons, of
organisation and information. The country, he concluded, had dropped
astern in the race for want of special education which was obtained
elsewhere by the artisan. The only possible chance for keeping the
industry of England