so, but because these are plain and
patent laws of nature which they must obey "under penalties."

I am sick of the _dilettante_ middle class, and mean to try
what I can do with these hard-handed fellows who live among
facts.

And in May, after referring to his Preliminary Course and the
earnestness and attention of his audience, he adds that he has begun
his similar course to working men exclusively--a series of six, given
in turn by each Professor:--

The theatre holds 600, and is crammed full. I believe in the
fustian, and can talk better to it than to any amount of gauze
and Saxony; and to a fustian audience (but to that only) I
would willingly give some when I come to Tenby [Dr. Dyster's
home].

Moreover, he took a practical interest in the corresponding movement
set afoot by F.D. Maurice, and gave occasional addresses at the
Working Men's College between 1857 and 1877, the last of which was
that delightful discourse on science as "trained and organized common
sense" which bears the alluring title of "The Method of Zadig."

IX

POPULAR EDUCATION

These lectures to working men, no less than his profound interest and
exhausting work on behalf of popular education, illustrate his intense
belief that science is not solely a thing of the laboratory, but a
vital factor in right living. It was still true that the people perish
for want of knowledge. And as he said when talking of posthumous fame:
"If I am to be remembered at all, I should like to be remembered as
one who did his best to help the people."

Nor did he lack appreciation among those whom he tried thus to aid.
Professor Mivart tells the following story:--

I recollect going [in 1874] with him and Mr. John Westlake,
Q.C., to a meeting of artisans in the Blackfriars Road, to
whom he gave a friendly address. He felt a strong interest in
working men, and was much beloved by them. On one occasion,
having taken a cab home, on his arrival there, when he held
out his fare to the cabman, the latter replied: "Oh no,
Professor; I have had too much pleasure and profit from
hearing you lecture to take any money from your pocket; proud
to have driven you, Sir!"

Another story is told by Mr. Raymond Blaythwayt:--

Only to-day I had a most striking instance of sentiment come
beneath my notice. I was about to enter my house, when a
plain, simply dressed working man came