...the capacity of a sort of under-nurse, and thus came in for my share of the storms which threatened the very life of the young creature. For some years...sight, I think it is to the credit of our age that tho war was not fiercer, and that the more bitter and unscrupulous forms of opposition died away as...

...the capacity of a sort of under-nurso, and thus came in for my share of the storms which threatened the very life of the young creature. For some years...undoubtedly warm work; but considering how exceedingly uupleasant the apparition of the new-comer must have been to those who did not fall in love with him...

...cradle. My recollections of the period are particularly vivid ; for having conceived a tender a flection for a child of what appeared to me to be such remarkable...fiercer, and that the more bitter and unscrupulous forms ol opposition died away as soon as they did. I speak of this period as of something past and gone,...

...the capacity of a sort of under-nurse, and thus came in for my share of the storms which threatened the very life of the young creature. For some years...newcomer must have been to those who did not fall m love with him at first sight, I thmk it is to the credit of our age that the war was not fiercer,...

...Twenty-one years later at the Royal Institution, Huxley again used the language of war but now of triumph: 'I think it is to the credit of our age that the war...forms of opposition died away as soon as they did'. Huxley was also able to assert, following his own work (and Owen's!) on Archaeopteryx and the reptile—...

...persons mistook its manifestations of a vigorous individuality for mere naughtiness; in fact there -vras a very pretty turmoil about its cradle. My recollections...sight, I think it is to the credit of our age that the Avar was not fiercer, and that the more bitter and unscrupulous forms of opposition died away as soon...