Quote #79
'The illustrious comparative anatomist, Huxley, Darwin's great general in the battles that had to be fought, but not a naturalist, far less a student of living nature.'
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- 'I believed that he was the greatest man I was ever likely to meet, and I believe that all the more firmly today'
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