Edward Clodd
Published: 2017-09-18
Total Pages: 246
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Excerpt from Thomas Henry Huxley Thomas henry huxley, the seventh and youngest child of George and Rachel Huxley, was born on the 4th May 1825, at Ealing, then a village separated by stretches of Open country from London. His father, who was assistant-master in a semi-public school there, is described by him as a man rather too easy-going for this wicked world, yet with a certain tenacity of charac ter which, since he inherited it, Huxley dryly says, unfriendly observers sometimes call obstinacy. This, together with a faculty for drawing, constituted the father's legacy to the son. It is of his mother that he declares himself physically and mentally the child. 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.