The sun., 1900-12-23
January. iss.. iioos.r slsdly embraced uus.

| l"v's proposal to organize some kind ~ regular
meeting. q proposal witch hors fruit, In TIA
establishment ~ tho y club on Nov \.
isns, N" fret meeting was held ~ ~ George {
Hotel Alhemnfl" street. where they resolved
| 10 dine regularly, 'e.copt vhen lIonhanl
cannot hsv" ~. In which case vs eill din" At
the A'hsnmum In tho iatter eishti"i tho
| Athenrufn became tho regular place ~ fn"ct.
: ins and II was herc TINT tho coming ~ are
of tho club wns celebrated In 1880 Iight
members mot ~ tho first meeting the second
meeting brought tho nnmher NJ 70 nin", but
! tho proposal Co elect tenth member was
| never carried out on tho principle ~ iucus
! ro1 fu"srfo. an additional ApptoprlRt"ness
| was lent to the symbol N tho origin ~ which
! Huxley himself thus described AZ HtnrtinR,
our minds were terribly exercised over tn"
nainc and constitution Of our society, A.
| opinions on this grave matter wer" no less
numerous than the members. We finally nc
copied the happy suggestion ~ our nIatho-
mat lcians 10 call Il the CLUB and the pro-
posal Of sofne genius among u that we should
have no rules save the unwrt'en law not TO
have any. was carried by accauat!on,- Tho
one object Of tho club was to afford fixed
meeting ground for few friends who were
bound together By personal regard and COM
munity Of scientlfc INTEREST,". vet were In
circumstances. Guests were not excluded
from the dinners Of the club on the contrary.
men Of science or letters Of almost every
nationality dincd with tho at one time or
another. Small as the club was. the members
Of IL were destined to PLAY n considerable
part In tho history OF English science. five
OF them received the Roval medal: three the
Coplev; one. tho Rumford; ak were Preel-
dents of the British Assoclation: three woro
Associates OF the Institute OF France. and
from among them the ROYAL Society chose
"A Secretary, a Foreign Secretary, a Treasurer
and three successive Presidents, The y
Club was probably unique In the snallness
OF its numbers. tho Intellectual cminence of
ia members and the length Of It's unchanged
existence The nearest parallel Is 10 bs
found In The Club. OF which. as f. happened.
Huxley was elected a member In 1884. Like
the X. The Club began with eight members
at It's first meeting. and Of the original mem
bers. johnson lived twenty years Sir Joshua
Reynolds. twenty-eieht: Burke. thirty three.
and Bennett LanGton. thlrty-seven. The
ranks, however were earlier broken. Within
ten years Goldsmith died and he was folio wed
in a twelvemonth bv Nugent, and Ave years
later bv Beauclerk and Chamler Moreover.
the eight were soon increased 10 twelve; then
TO twenty. and, finally. TO forty. while tho
gaps were filed m as they occurred. In tho
y. on the contrary. nearly nineteen years
passed before tho original circle WAS broken
by tho death Of a single member. The last
meeting Of the X Club took place IN 1903. It's
end was thought to eyem9li'y q saving Of
Sir Joseph Hooker's At our ages clubs are
an nnaohronsm.-
Tho progress of tho American Civil War
suggested to Huxley In 1905 the tert for an
Al ia
that Is 10 say. tho emancipation OF the negro
In America and the emancipation Of women
In England His main argument for the
emancipation Of the negro was that. In ac-
cordance with the moral law that no human
being can arbitrarily dominate over another
without grevous damage 10 his own nature.
the master Will benefit by freedom more than
the freedman And just az the negro Will
never take the highest rlaces In civilization.
ye. need not be confined to the lowest. 80. he
argued. II will ever be with women. Natures
old Sallc law will never be repealed. and no
change of dynasty will ne effected" go he
opined. and went on TO say that whatever
argument tustifes n given education for all
boys Justifes its application 10 girls as we'll"
No scientific monographs were published
In 1865 10y Huxley. but In the following year.
besides his Fullerian lectures on cthnology
February. 1890. paper In the Natural History
Reusr on the Prehistoric Remains OF CATH
ness based on a quantity OF relics found
the previous autumn at Keiss This and tNe
article on the "Ncanderthal Skull In the
Natural History Rer1fu for 1904 attracted
some notice among foreign anthropo!oglsts.
On April .. 1890, Huxley received the hon
orary degree OF the University OF Edinburgh
In company with Tyndall ard Carlyle II
was part OF tho fitness OF things that he should
be associated In shis honor with his close
friend. Tyndal.. ut though he frequently
ack nowledsed his debt TO Carlyle as the
teacher who In his youth had inspired him
with an undying hatred OF shams AM hum
bugs Of every kind. and whom he had gladly
come to know In after DAYS, Carlyle did not
forgive the publication OF Mans Plaoo In
Nature Years afterward. near the end OF
his life. Huxley saw Carlyle walking slowly
and alone down the opposite side Of the street,
and touched by his solitary appearance
crossed over ard spoke to him. The old
man looked at him. and. merely remarking.
You're Huxley, aren't you, the man who
says that we're all descended from monkeys;-
went on his way. II was in this year " at tho
controversy arose on the question whether
Gov Eyre could be justified for his drastic
method OF suppressine the insurrectlon In
jamaica II is well known that Carlyle took
the affirmative side. but Huxley the negative,
In a letter which appeared IN the Poll McU
Gasotts Of Oct II. 1880. Huxley said: Il have
joined the committee which proposes to in
diet Mr. Eyre in the hope that l may hear q
court OF Justice declare that the only defence
which can be set up is no defence. and that
the klllnS OF Mr.. Gordon WAS the greatest
offence known TO the law. to wit murder
-
With the year 1870 came . turning point
In Huxleys career. From his return 70 Eng
land In 1850 Til 1854 he had endured four years
OF hard struggle and Of hope deferred; his
reputation a. n zoologist had been established
before his arrival. and was moro than con-
frned by the exercise OF his personal energy
and power. When at length settled In the pro-
fessorship at Jsrmyn street, he was 90 far from
thinking himself more than a beginner who had
learned to work In no moro than ono corner OF
field OF knowledge, and still needed 90
work In all kindred sub!ccts In orr!er 70
know all the true bearings Of his particular
scot on. that he treated the newt years sim
ply "a years Of further apprenticeship. Under
the suggestive power OF the Origin OF Spe-
,iaa oil -aI az oil nd