What is not surprising is Huxley's affection thirty years later for a British hero, General Gordon, whose dramatic mission was to rescue soldiers from a jihad triumph in Khartoum; Huxley exclaimed to John Donnelly, September 10, 1884 "How wonderfully Gordon is holding his own. I should like to see him lick the Mahdi into fits before Wolseley gets up. You despise the Jews, but Gordon is more like one of the Maccabees of Bar-Kochba than any sort of modern man." Prime Minister Gladstone's refusal to help Gordon and the G. O. M.'s favoring of home rule for Ireland were additional stimuli to Huxley's dislike of Gladstone's antics. If you can, get duplicates of the tools you use at home most often, but keep an eye out for multipurpose tools that can save space. Whether we are talking about Asher, Ben, Brian, Mark, Chuck, Bill, or Seth, at least if you know the name of your soulmate you can kind of keep an eye out as to whether he is the one. No one else’s soulmate would be a good example for my own.

He was a prime example of scientific young England. Fortunately for England and perhaps for science, Toronto rejected him in favor of a politician's relative and so three years later, Hal applied to the University of London, justifying his "solicitation of your suffrages" by noting publication of six physiological essays (e.g., on the cell theory), two translations, and 23 zoological essays.. The first meeting of the X Club, as it came to be designated, was in January of 1864; its nine members included these gentlemen (Xperienced Hooker, Xcentric Tyndall, Xalted Huxley) and six others (Xhaustive Spencer, Xemplary Busk, Xpert Frankland, Xtravagant Hirst, Xquisite Lubbock, and Xcellent Spottiswoode). For THH on late X Club antics, see 1886 and 1886'. The activities of the firm were parodied in a pamphlet edited by "Snug the Joiner," inspired by the BAAS meeting at Exeter in 1869: Exeter Change. Though he did not apply Carlylean hero-worship to the fraternity of sciences, he was amenable to governmental recognition of scientific meritsee letter of December 1, 1851 and For Merit, draft of notes composed at Athenaeum Club (July 7, 1887). In a letter to the Bishop of Ripon, he noted that "The temple of modern science" is graced by Faraday, police pants Lyell, and Darwin.

At the 1851 Ipswich meeting of the B. A. A. S., Huxley and Tyndall met Hooker. Huxley took Forbes' place at the Royal School of Mines, and joined Forbes creation, the Red Lion Clubsee July 16, 1851. Forbes conducted the Club as a "Pantagruelist" ritual, with orations, queer songs, "butter-boat" speechesthis from Huxley's obituary of John Tyndall. June 16, 1887. In his biographies lie remembrances of his own past. Pen-pal Hooker was the recipient of accounts of Huxley's mountaineering September 3, 1856 and August 16, 1857, and of Huxley's comments on the state of science. For decades, Huxley corrected and graded Spencer's papers, informing him of anatomical and other scientific points the philosopher was ignorant of, for example, of the nature of bird air-cells September 19, 1860 and the difference between plants and animals August 3, 1861 and later arguing with him about the advantage of having some government control of society. To Hooker, Huxley wrote "It is no use having any false modesty about the matter. You and I, if we last ten years longer, and you by a long while first, will be the representatives of our respective lines in this country. In that capacity we shall have certain duties to perform to ourselves, to the outside world, and to science. We shall have to swallow praise which is no great pleasure, and to stand multitudinous basting and irritations, which will involve a good deal of unquestionable pain. Don't flatter yourself that there is any moral chloroform by which either you or I can render ourselves insensible or acquire the habit of doing things coolly. It is assuredly of no great use to tear one's self to pieces before one is fifty. But the alternative, for men constructed on the high pressure tubular boiler principle, like ourselves, is to lie still and let the devil have his own way. And I will be torn to pieces before I am forty sooner than see that" December 19, 1860 Owen's Position in the History of Anatomical Science.

This was not exactly one of those bits of over-easiness to pressure with which you reproach mebut the resultant of a composition of pressures, one of which was the conviction that the "Institute " might be made into something very useful and greatly wantedif only the projectors could be made to believe that they had always intended to do that which your humble servant wants donethat is the establishment of a sort of Royal Society for the improvement of industrial knowledge and an industrial universityby voluntary association. Henrietta Huxley, remembering John Tyndall's frequent visits to the Huxley households, spoke of the trio as "Brother John, Brother Hal, and Sister Nettie. Huxley and Tyndall first met in 1851, at the British Association meeting at Ipswich (the following year Huxley and Spencer first met). In flowering gratitude, Tyndall wrote to Brother Hal on May 9, 1852: "It is said that every son of Adam has some spark of poetic sentiment in him, and that what distinguishes the poet proper from other men is the faculty of being able to tell you what he and all feel.