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London, England, 1868-01-06 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 6.

ONs of the chief services rendered by the in-
stitution which the zeal and benevolence of Mr.
MAURICE and others have established in Great
Ormond-street is the multiplication of institutions
like itself in other parts of the city and kingdom.
The Surrey side has now its Working Men's Col-
lege ; and Bloomsbury will no longer be able to
exalt its horn over the Borough. The artisans
and labourers of South London and their

friendly advisers and helpers have not put off
doing anything until they could do everything.
Though the design of the institution is com-
prehensive, embracing mathematical and phy-
sical science, morals and politics, languages and
history, at present classes and teachers have been
furnished for the physical sciences only. These
subjects occupying the foreground in the pro-
spectus of the new College, the honorary oaice of
Principal has been very appropriately conferred
upon Professor HUXLEY. His opening address is in
. . .

itself a service rendered, not only by its author to
the College, but by the College, which has fur-
nished occasion for it, to society. It is more
than curious to note the fact that the vote of
thanks awarded to the lecturer was moved by the
Bishop of Cmtimm's Tows, and seconded by the
Secretary to Bishop COLLSMON Defence Fund.
It is a sign of s larger spirit than has hitherto pre-
vailed that men whose opinions on topics of

paramount importance
are wide as the poles

asunder are ready to listen to each other ; to
hear in patience things which may startle and even
wound their preponsessions ; to lay aside the arro-
gance of Pharisaisiii or of Illuminism, and to co-
operate in good works. So far as Professor
Hrxi.xv is concerned, this union is not
purchased by any equivocation or reticence. His
unflinching intellectual honesty is impressed on all
that he says. This fact, we believe, has more
than anything else brought about the good under-
standing whioh exists between himself and his

theological opponents, and which was marked by
his reception the other day at Sion College, and
by the presence of the Bishop of GRAHAM'S Town
on Saturday in Blackfriars-road. It is Mr. Hrs-
LEY'S habit to accentuate the questions on which
his opinions hirer from those commonly received I
—to clothe them in the plainest and strongest
language, to barb them with the keenest wit, and
to wing them with the most telling illustration.
He is the open and the manly foe. His antago-
nists blow where to have him, and are not
afraid to meet him. Men are getting
tired of attempts to persuade them that
there is no difference of opinion, when
they know that the differences are deep
and wide ; of being informed that they
really hold doctrines from which they heartily
dissent ; and of hearing those doctrines conveyed
in language and invested with associations which
belong to convictions having nothing in common
with them. Against this often unconscious
sophistry Professor H XLEY'S example is a useful
protest. Adversaries feel that in dealing with him
they are standing up to a powerful antagonist,
and that, if they are worsted, they will be worsted
in fair fight. The sensation is a more healthy
one than the suspicion of being imposed on by a
professor of verbal legerdemain or metaphysical
electro-biology.
The impartiality with which Mr. HUXLEY dis-
penses his Mows is one of the secrets of the good
humour with which they are received. The clergy
might be a little angry, perhaps, at the raps they
get on the knuckles, if they were not pleased with
the hits delivered straight from the shoulder into
the faces of the politicians ; and the manufacturers
might resent the rough handling which they en-
counter, if they were not gratified at the manner
in which the landlords are dealt with. They are
like a crowd standing round some powerful gal-
vanic battery, each of whom forgets his own pain
in the delight at the shock under which his
neighbours are writhing.
Professor Hi:steles theme, on Saturday, was
liberal education, and he had no difficulty in show-
ing how narrow are the conceptions of it
which form the ideal of the politician, the manu-
facturer, and the theologian ; and how far short
even of their poor ideals the actual training of all
classes amongst us falls. Primary and interme-
diate schools are not worse of their kind than
colleges and universities. The lowest, the middle,
and the highest classes are slued equally untaught
in relation to their opportunities and the work
they have to do. Mr. Lows might take lemons
not only in the physical sciences which he