| Show PROF HUXLEY DEAD the cable bilings news ot of the death of professor thomas herry huxley at the good old ago age ot of three score and ton ten agrest A treat man mail was WAR lie hrad to the medical profession lie when lie he had dissected so acted the outer man went to work to t find his soul and the deeper mysteries of our being this thin led to tho the study ot of animal life gene generally generady raly and the changes chances which the ages are bringing upon animal life and the texture of 0 animal bodies lie ile was the great anatomist of oc the world not only of 0 the human body but through all the other forms ot of life lie ile by analogy and deduction reasoned out nhat were the ilia progenitors of the ilia horse and read out the character or of the early birds and traced them to the allin ity of 0 birds and reptiles ile he had tho ilia clearest and broadest discernment of 0 the affinities ot of organic nature of 0 any man in a n who over ever lived ile he was alike at homo home in natural history physical geography and with all that is beautiful and high in poetry fiction and literature lie ile a magnificent and robust command of language and lie had a style of writing wilting so co rich that lie he could illuminate tile the drnest theme with tints that made for his works attentive and charmed readers ile ho was great enough to fasten his name indelibly on tile the age in which darwin and faraday ra raday anki and many another giant w was as struggling to extend the truth find and to give now new luster to english science and literature A great man was he and with w ith tender reverence will all the scientific and literary world stand with uncovered heads as his tired fired body Is laid in its final rest resl |
