In this article will be found ("Collected Essays” 3 page 374) a full account of the programme which he laid down for himself, and which to a great extent he saw carried into effect, in its fourfold division—­of physical drill and discipline, not only to improve the physique of the children, but as an introduction to all other sorts of training—­of domestic training, especially for girls—­of education in the knowledge of moral and social laws and the engagement of the affections for what is good and against what is evil—­and finally, of intellectual training.  And it should be noted that he did not only regard intellectual training from the utilitarian point of view; he insisted, e.g. on the value of reading for amusement as] “one of its most valuable uses to hard-worked people.”

[Much as he desired that this intellectual training should be efficient, the most cursory perusal of this article will show how far he placed the moral training above the intellectual, which, by itself, would only turn the gutter-child into] “the subtlest of all the beasts of the field,” [and how wide of the mark is the cartoon at this period representing him as the Professor whose panacea for the ragged children was to] “cram them full of nonsense.”

[In the third section are also to be found his arguments for the retention of Bible-reading in the elementary schools.  He reproached extremists of either party for confounding the science, theology, with the affection, religion, and either crying for more theology under the name of religion, or demanding the abolition of] “religious” [teaching in order to get rid of theology, a step which he likens to] “burning your ship to get rid of the cockroaches.”

[As regards his actual work on the Board, I must express my thanks to Dr. J.H.  Gladstone for his kindness in supplementing my information with an account based partly on his own long experience of the Board, partly on the reminiscences of members contemporary with my father.

The Board met first on December 15, for the purpose of electing a Chairman.  As a preliminary, Huxley proposed and carried a motion that no salary be attached to the post.  He was himself one of the four members proposed for the Chairmanship; but the choice of the Board fell upon Lord Lawrence.  In the words of Dr. Gladstone:—­

Huxley at once took a prominent part in the proceedings, and continued to do so till the beginning of the year 1872, when ill-health compelled him to retire.

At first there was much curiosity both inside and outside the Board as to how Huxley would work with the old educationists, the clergy, dissenting ministers, and the miscellaneous body of eminent men that comprised the first Board.  His antagonism to many of the methods employed in elementary schools was well known from his various discourses, which had been recently published together under the title of “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews.”  I watched his course