the extra-scientific world, his aspirations might be described with curious accuracy in the words of the poet whom he held to have appreciated most clearly the tendencies of modern scientific thought. The first speaker in Tennyson's Two Voices recalls the early phase when he listened as 'the distant battle flashed and rung': sang his joyful Pæan, and burnished his weapons,
Waiting to strive a happy strife,
To war with falsehood to the knife,
And not to lose the good of life.
He was to carve out
Free space for every human doubt:
to reach through
The springs of life, the depths of awe,
And reach the law within the law;
and finally to die,
Not void of righteous self-applause
Nor in a merely selfish cause
but,
Having sown some generous seed,
Fruitful of further thought and deed.
Huxley, indeed, never gave in to the despondency which led the second voice to recommend
