Life And Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

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" But the " Devonshire Man " did not confine himself to science. He indulged in various personalities, to the smart- 350 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY chap, xxiv est of which, a parody of Sydney Smith's dictum on Dr.
Whewell, Huxley repUed: — " A Devonshire Man " is good enough to say of me that " cutting up monkeys is his forte, and cutting up men is his foible." With your permission, I propose to cut up " A Devon- shire Man " ; but I leave it to the public to judge whether, when so employed, my oc
...cupation is to be referred to the former or to the latter category.
For this he was roundly lectured by the Spectator on January 29, in an article under the heading " Pope Huxley." Regardless of the rights or wrongs of the controversy, he was chidden for the abusive language of the above para- graph, and told that he was a very good anatomist, but had better not enter into discussions on other subjects.
The same question is developed in the address to the Ethnological Society later in the year and in " Some Fixed Points in British Ethnology " {Contemporary Review, 1871), and reiterated in an address from the chair in Section D at the British Association in 1878 at Dublin, and in a letter to the Times for October 12, 1887, apropos of a leading article upon " British Race-types of To-day." Letter-writing was difificult under such pressure of work, but the claims of absent friends were not wholly forgotten, though left on one side for a time, and the warm-hearted Dohrn, who could not bear to think himself forgotten, man- aged to get a letter out of him — not on scientific business.


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