her in bad air,
without a chance of a change. They have no play-grounds; they
amuse themselves with marbles and chuck-farthing, instead of
cricket and hare-and-hounds; and if it were not for the
wonderful instinct which leads all poor children of tender years
to throw themselves under the feet of cab-horses whenever they
can, I know not how they would learn to use their limbs with
agility."

This, humanitarianism as it was, was not the mere emotional sentiment
of the typical humanitarian; he went on to give the soundest practical
reasons for physical development.

"Whatever doubts people may entertain about the efficacy of
natural selection, there can be none about artificial selection;
and the breeder who should attempt to make, or keep up, a fine
stock of pigs, or sheep, under the conditions to which the
children of the poor are exposed, would be the laughing stock
even of the bucolic mind. Parliament has already done something
in this direction by declining to be an accomplice in the
asphyxiation of school children. It refuses to make any grant to
a school in which the cubical contents of the school-room are
inadequate to allow of proper respiration."

He wished to see physical training put on the same system.

The second great point upon which he laid stress was the necessity of
providing training in domestic economy, cookery, and other household
accomplishments, for poor girls. These demands of Huxley seem simple
and obvious, now that by his efforts and the efforts of others they
have been accomplished, but in England, even thirty years ago, it
required more than an ordinary prevision and boldness to insist upon
them.

Huxley passed next to the burning question of the time. He treated it
in the broadest and least sectarian spirit.

"The boys and girls for whose education the School Boards have to
provide, have not merely to discharge domestic duties, but each
of them is a member of a social and political organisation of
great complexity, and has, in future life, to fit himself into
that organisation, or be crushed by it. To this end it is surely
needful, not only that they should be made acquainted with the
elementary laws of conduct, but that their affections should be
trained, so as to love with all their hearts that conduct which
tends to the attainment of the highest good for