Excerpt from Huxley: His Life and Work The great French philosopher, M. Henri Bergson, in his recent Huxley Lecture at Birmingham Uni versity (may 29, 1911) asked: What scientific question, what philosophic problem, is there which did not interest Huxley's luminous intellect - one of the broadest and most comprehensive that nine teenth-century England produced, fertile in great intellects as it was That being so, it can be well understood that no one volume could deal with all the varied aspects of his strenuous and crowded life. Here there is no such attempt. In these few pages the effort has been to show as clear a portrait as possible, to show the man as distinct from his con temporaries, and to indicate his place in the gallery of great British minds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.