Quote #81

'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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  2. 'Huxleyism: the theory of the anthropoid descent of man and its inevitable consequences.'
  3. 'The illustrious comparative anatomist, Huxley, Darwin's great general in the battles that had to be fought, but not a naturalist, far less…
  4. 'Oh, there goes Professor Huxley; faded but still fascinating'
  5. 'It was worth being born to have known Huxley.'
  6. 'I'm a good Christian woman-I'm not an infidel like you!'
  7. 'A man who was always taking two irons out of the fire and putting three in'
  8. 'Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the nineteenth century.'

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