Quote #74

'If he [THH] has a fault it is... that like Caesar, he is ambitious... [it might be said that] cutting up apes is his forte, cutting up men is his foible'

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  2. 'Darwin's bulldog was patently a man of almost puritanical uprightness'
  3. 'Huxley gave the death-blow not only to Owen's theory of the skull but also to Owen's hitherto unchallenged prestige'
  4. 'Archbishop Huxley and Professor Manning'
  5. 'I think his tone is much too vehement'
  6. 'A man who was always taking two irons out of the fire and putting three in'
  7. 'My good and kind agent for the propagation of the Gospel; i.e. the Devil's gospel'.
  8. 'It was worth being born to have known Huxley.'

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