The
publications of the Royal Society are called Philosophical Transactions.
The society has close connection with the government, and has assisted
the government in various important scientific undertakings among
which may be mentioned Parry's North Pole expedition. The society also
distributes $20,000 yearly for the promotion of scientific research.]
[Footnote 14: Rastignac: a character in Le Pere Goriot. At the close of
the story Rastignac says, "A nous deux, maintenant":--Henceforth there
is war between us.]
[Footnote 15: Pere Goriot: a novel of Balzac's with a plot similar to
King Lear.]
[Footnote 16: Professor Tyndall (1820-1893): a distinguished British
physicist and member of the Royal Society. He explored with Huxley the
glaciers of Switzerland. His work in electricity, radiant heat, light
and acoustics gave him a foremost place in science.]
[Footnote 17: Ecclesiastical spirit: the spirit manifested by the clergy
of England in Huxley's time against the truths of science. The clergy
considered scientific truth to be disastrous to religious truth.
Huxley's attitude toward the teaching of religious truth is illuminated
by this quotation, which he uses to explain his own position: "I have
the fullest confidence that in the reading and explaining of the Bible,
what the children will be taught will be the great truths of Christian
Life and conduct, which all of us desire they should know, and that no
effort will be made to cram into their poor little minds, theological
dogmas which their tender age prevents them from understanding.
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