icked. Indeed, it surprises me at times to
think how any one who had sunk so low could since have emerged
into, at any rate, relative respectability. Personally, like
the non-corvine personages in the Ingoldsby legend, I did not
feel "one penny the worse." Translated into several languages,
the book reached a wider public than I had ever hoped
for; being largely helped, I imagine, by the Ernulphine
advertisements to which I referred. It has had the honour of
being freely utilized without acknowledgment by writers of
repute; and, finally, it achieved the fate, which is the
euthanasia of a scientific work, of being enclosed among the
rubble of the foundations of later knowledge, and forgotten.

To my observation, human nature has not sensibly changed
during the last thirty years. I doubt not that there are
truths as plainly obvious, and as generally denied, as
those contained in _Man's Place in Nature_, now awaiting
enunciation. If there is a young man of the present generation
who has taken as much trouble as I did to assure himself that
they are truths, let him come out with them, without troubling
his head about the barking of the dogs of St. Ernulphus.
_Veritas praevalebit_--some day; and even if she does not
prevail in his time, he himself will be all the better and
wiser for having tried to help her. And let him recollect
that such great reward is full payment for all his labour and
pains.

To speak out thus was one side of his passion for veracity. When it
was a matter of demonstrable truth, he refused to be intimidated by
great names. Already, in his Croonian lecture of 1858, "On the
Theory of the Vertebrate Skull," he had challenged, and by direct
morphological investigation overthrown, the theory of Oken, adopted
and enlarged upon by Owen, that the adult skull is a modified
vertebral column. Again, the great name of Owen, that jealous king of
the anatomical world, had in 1857 supported the assertion, so contrary
to the investigations of Huxley himself and of other anatomists, that
certain anatomical features of the brain are peculiar to the genus
_Homo_, and are a ground for placing that genus separately from all
other mammals--in a division, Archencephala, apart from and superior
to the rest. Huxley thereupon re-investigated the whole question, and
soon satisfied himself that these structures were not peculiar to