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In reality they had before them Marsham's aspect at the declaration of the poll head and face thrown back defiantly, hollow eyes of bitterness and fatigue; and the scene outside in front, a booing crowd and beside the new member, Alicia's angry and insolent look. The election represented a set-back in a man's career, in spite of the bare victory. And Lankester did not think it would be retrieved.
"He'll have to go to the Lords! that's flat if we win this election. If we come back, the new members will never stand him; and if we don't well, I suppose, in that case, he does as well as anybody else." The remarks were McEwart's. Lankester turned a sarcastic eye upon him. "Don't you be unjust, my boy. Ferrier's one of the smartest Parliamentary hands England has ever turned out"
Other excellent signs are the recent issue of a translation of Weismann's important essays on this and kindred subjects, the strong support given to his views by Wallace in his Darwinism, and their adoption by Ray Lankester in his article on Zoology in the latest edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
To take command of life, to replace instincts by reasoned and deliberate acts, to make the world a conscious and ordered product that is the task of man. Sir Ray Lankester has set this forth with beautiful precision in his book, "The Kingdom of Man". We are, at this time, in an uncomfortable and dangerous transition stage, as a child playing with explosives.
Rich men, therefore, were the indispensable tools of his ideas; and among his own group he who had never possessed a farthing of his own apart from the earnings of his brain and pen was generally set on to capture them. Was that really why he had come down? to make sure of this rich Laodicean? Lankester fell into a reverie. He was a man of curious gifts and double personality.
Your common man has no conception of the zeal that animates a scientific investigator, the fury of contradiction you can arouse in him. It is the odium theologicum in a new form. There are men, for instance, who would gladly burn Professor Ray Lankester at Smithfield for his treatment of the Mollusca in the Encyclopaedia.
Lankester, Nature and Man, Romanes Lecture, 1905, pp. 27-9. The Commonwealth of Nations, edited by L. Curtis, Part I, p. 130. Ibid., p. 166. P. H. Kerr in An Introduction to the Study of International Relations, 1915, p. 149. A still better name would be the Great Responsibilities. Second Thoughts of an Economist, 1916, pp. 17-18, 22. Freedom and other Essays, p. 22.
How impatient Professor Ray Lankester is of any attempt to call attention to the older view of evolution appears perhaps even more plainly in a review of this same book of Professor Semper's that appeared in "Nature," March 3, 1881.
Indeed, the value of cocoa as food for ordinary mortals as well as for mythical beings cannot be better summed up than in the words of Professor Lankester, Superintendent of the Food Collections at South Kensington, who declares: "It can hardly be regarded as a substitute for tea and coffee; it is, in fact, a substitute for all other kinds of food, and when taken with some form of bread, little or nothing else need be added at a meal.
In reference to structure, his son and biographer writes, "He loved to visualize his object clearly. The framework of what he wished to say would always be drawn out first." Professor Ray Lankester also mentions Huxley's love of form. Huxley's own account of his efforts to shape his work is suggestive.
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