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A worker and a fighter all his life, the pen was in his hand when overtaken by the illness that was to prove fatal in the end, and he was replying, with unabated vigor of expression and force of logic, to the latest attack made Vol. XIX. by mysticism upon that stronghold of reasoned and ordered knowledge which we call science, and of which he had for nearly half a century been one of the doughtiest of defenders. THE OPIUM DREAMER (Poem). Clifford Lanier THE LIFE OF A PHILANTHROPIC ENGLISH- 43 44 In the popular consciousness, indeed, Huxley ranked among the leading representatives of English science, probably as the foremost among them after the death of his old-time colleague, John Tyndall. It may be worth while to consider for a moment what this estimate means. There is practically no such thing, in the present age of the world, as the representation of science by any one man. Aristotle was perhaps the only man for whom, in any age, that distinction may be claimed. Nowadays, a man can represent science only by representing biology, or physics, or geology, or something even narrower than these. Huxley represented English science in the sense that he gave a large part of his life to the subject of comparative anatomy, and made some fairly important contributions to our knowledge of that subject. But his work was not comparable to that, in their respective subjects, of such men as Faraday, or Lyell, or Maxwell, to say nothing of Darwin. It was good work, without doubt, but it was equalled by a score of Englishmen of his own generation, and surpassed by a respectable number. But the average person, when he thinks of Huxley as a scientific leader, recks little of his comparative anatomy, and has probably never heard of the great work on "Oceanic Hydrozoa," the manuals of vertebrate and invertebrate anatomy, or even the monograph on "The Cray-Fish." It is a very different sort of work that has given Huxley his immense reputation, the work which, for the most part, be found in the nine volumes of his "Colmay lected Essays," and which is, of its kind, almost unparallelled in our literature. These volumes, |