the autumn.

Ever yours faithfully,

T.H. Huxley.

[In addition to this address on September 14, he read his paper on
"Penicillium," etc., in Section D on the 20th. Speaking on the 17th,
after a lecture of Sir J. Lubbock's on the "Social and Religious
Condition of the Lower Races of Mankind," he brought forward his own
experiences as to the practical results of the beliefs held by the
Australian savages, and from this passed to the increasing savagery of
the lower classes in great towns such as Liverpool, which was the
great political question of the future, and for which the only cure
lay in a proper system of education.

The savagery underlying modern civilisation was all the more vividly
before him, because one evening he, together with Sir J. Lubbock, Dr.
Bastian, and Mr. Samuelson, were taken by the chief of the detective
department round some of the worst slums in Liverpool. In thieves'
dens, doss houses, dancing saloons, enough of suffering and
criminality was seen to leave a very deep and painful impression. In
one of these places, a thieves' lodging-house, a drunken man with a
cut face accosted him and asked him whether he was a doctor. He said
"yes," whereupon the man asked him to doctor his face. He had been
fighting, and was terribly excited. Huxley tried to pacify him, but if
it had not been for the intervention of the detective, the man would
have assaulted him. Afterwards he asked the detective if he were not
afraid to go alone in these places, and got the significant answer,
"Lord bless you, sir, drink and disease take all the strength out of