Personal sketches of recent authors . educated chiefly at home, by his father, who wasmaster of a large public school. He attended theschool two or three years, and learned some usefullessons in his contact with the boys, particularly tolook out for himself, and stand up for his characteristic traits in after life were inflexibledetermination and a tenderness that never among his earliest companions these finalcharacteristics could have been plainly had a hot temper, and he was always ready tofight a bully and to defend a smaller or weaker was afterwa
Personal sketches of recent authors . educated chiefly at home, by his father, who wasmaster of a large public school. He attended theschool two or three years, and learned some usefullessons in his contact with the boys, particularly tolook out for himself, and stand up for his characteristic traits in after life were inflexibledetermination and a tenderness that never among his earliest companions these finalcharacteristics could have been plainly had a hot temper, and he was always ready tofight a bully and to defend a smaller or weaker was afterwards denominated the fighting scientist,from his readiness to meet in open battle any onewho attacked his own opinions or those of hisscientific friends. Perhaps he was a little more likelyto defend his friends, particularly Darwin, than totake up arms in his own defence. When Darwinpublished The Origin of Species, he was bitterlydenounced in almost every pulpit in the land as aninfidel. Darwin paid little attention to his opponents,. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. THOMAS HENR Y HUXLE Y. 153 but went on with his researches. But Huxley, whowas already a well-known scientist, sprang at once tohis defence, and fought his battles in the arena fromthat time on. He was a brilliant debater and a mostpowerful adversary. Sometimes it happened thathis own discoveries were thrown into the shade fora time by Vs dashing advocacy of the evolutiontheory of his friend. He studied medicine at theCharing Cross School, interested especially in physi-ology. Here he endangered his life in a post-mortem examination, and did not entirely recoverfrom the poisoning for many years. That hypo-chondriacal dyspepsia which afflicted him through-out life was always attributed to this cause. Theasceticism of his life was due partly to this, no doubt,but he was too great a physiologist not to be anadvocate of moderation in all things. In 1845 he received the degree of M. B. from theUniversity of London, being placed seco
Size: 1269px × 1970px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectauthorsenglish, booky
