ympathetic, loving spirit that runs over and inundates
everything it touches, all with no special thought of personal pleasure,
gratification or gain.

Linnaeus seems in every way to fill the formula.

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THOMAS H. HUXLEY

That man, I think, has a liberal education whose body has been so
trained in youth that it is the ready servant of his will, and does
with ease and pleasure all that, as a mechanism, it is capable of;
whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts
of equal strength and in smooth running order, ready, like a
steam-engine, to be turned to any kind of work and to spin the
gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind; whose mind is
stored with the knowledge of the great fundamental truths of Nature
and the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is
full of life and fire, but whose passions have been trained to come
to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; one
who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to
hate all vileness, and to esteem others as himself.

--_Thomas Henry Huxley_

THOMAS H. HUXLEY

That was a great group of thinkers to which Huxley belonged.

The Mutual Admiration Society forms the sunshine in which souls
grow--great men come in groups. Sir Francis Galton says there were
fourteen men in Greece in the time of Pericles who made Athens possible.
A man alone is only a part of a man.

Praxiteles by himself could have done nothing. Ictinus might have drawn
the plans for the Parthenon, but without Pericles the noble building
would have remained forever the stuff which dreams are made of. And they
do say that without Aspasia Pericles would have been a mere dreamer of
dreams, and Walter Savage Landor overheard enough of their conversation
to prove it.

William Morris and seven men working with him formed the Preraphaelite
Brotherhood and gave the workers and doers of the world an impetus they
yet feel.

Cambridge and Concord had seven men who induced the Muses to come to
America and take out papers.

These men of the Barbizon School tinted the entire art world: Millet,
Rousseau, Daubigny, Corot, Diaz. And the people who worked a complete
revolution in the theological thought of Christendom were these:
Darwin, Spencer, Mill, Tyndall, Wallace, Huxley and, yes, George Eliot,
who bolstered the