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DR. RICHARD GARNETT has described Huxley's work as “that of the populariser; the man who makes few original contributions to science or thought, but states the discoveries of others better than they could have stated them themselves.” I am disposed to think that the picture my friend Mr. Clodd has drawn with practised dexterity will rather confirm than dissipate this inadequate judgment. On the last page of this volume he writes, with perhaps a touch of remorse:—“To regard Huxley as a compound of Boanerges and Iconoclast is to show entire misapprehension of the aims which inspired his labours.” I entirely agree; but the words might have been added to the title-page without doing serious injustice to what follows.
Thomas Henry Huxley.
By Edward Clodd. Pp. xiii + 226. (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902.) Price 2s. 6d.
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THISELTON-DYER, W. Thomas Henry Huxley . Nature 66, 121–123 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066121a0
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