Thomas H. Huxley / by J.R. Ainsworth.

Date:
1907
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Credit: Thomas H. Huxley / by J.R. Ainsworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To smite all humbugs, however big ; to give a nobler tone to science; to set an example of abstinence from petty personal controversies, and of toleration for every- thing but lying ; to be indifferent as to whether the work is recognised as mine or not, so long as it is done :— are these my aims ? i86o will show. ' Willst du dir ein hiibsch Leben zimmern, Musst dich ans Vergangene nicht bekiimmern ; Und ware dir auch was Verloren, Musst immer thun wie neugeboren. Was jeder Tag will, soUst du fragen ; Was jeder Tag will, wird er sagen. Musst dich an eigenen Thun ergotzen ; Was andere thun, das wirst du schatzen. Besonders keinen Menschen hassen Und das Ubrige Gott uberlassen.' [Goethe.] (Last entry in T. H. Huxley's Private Journal^ December 31, 1856. Life, i, p. 151.)