—­alcohol. —­clericalism. —­second visit to Maloja. —­returns to Eastbourne. —­led to write on social questions. —­manner of work. —­practical results of wrong thinking. —­marriage and the wisdom of Solomon. —­trip to Canaries.  —­Ulysses and Penelope. —­receives Linnean Medal. —­the Flood myth. —­dislike to moving. —­reply to Dr. Abbott. —­quietude of mind impossible. —­on ethnological questions possesses the impartiality of a mongrel. —­pertinacity. —­sends books to Royal College of Science. —­rational and irrational certainty. —­his aim, truth in all things. —­new house completed through Mr. Rich’s legacy. —­visits Huxley Hall. —­almost indecent to be so well again. —­his garden. —­warns younger generation that the battle is only half won. —­essays translated into French. —­love for his native tongue. —­party politics and Unionism. —­a scholar, not a leader of a sect. —­backwoodsman’s work. —­a full life suggests more than negative criticism. —­creation and providence. —­ethics of evolution. —­underlying truths of many theological teachings. —­moral aspiration and the hope of immortality. —­the world and comfortable doctrines.  —­President of London University Reform Association. —­administration. —­appears before London University Commission. —­heads deputation to Prime Minister. —­opposes creation of an Established Church scientific. —­letter on scientific aspirations. —­on free thought ribaldry. —­made a Privy Councillor. —­the title of Right Hon. —­official recognition on leaving office. —­visit to Osborne. —­a friend’s second marriage. —­friendship and funerals. —­the modern martyrdom. —­source of his ill-health. —­faculty of forgetting. —­on sacramental food. —­poem on Tennyson’s funeral. —­a religion for men. —­funerals. —­his part in the memorial to Owen. —­on bearing attacks. —­proposed working-men’s lectures on the Bible. —­testimony and the marvellous.  —­Manx mannikins. —­home pets. —­payment for work out of the ordinary. —­on dying by inches. —­the approach of death. —­description of his personality in Lankester’s review of the “Collected Essays”. —­letter from a lunatic. —­a contretemps at a public dinner. —­at Oxford, 1894. —­criticism of Lord Salisbury. —­repeated in “Nature”. —­deafness. —­growing hopefulness in age. —­receives Darwin medal. —­speech. —­his “last appearance on any stage”. —­characterises his work for science. —­late liking for public speaking. —­slovenly writing in science. —­lifelong love of philosophy. —­the abysmal griefs of life. —­brilliancy of talk just before his last illness. —­a meeting with a priest. —­writes article on “Foundations of Belief”. —­proofreading. —­his last illness. —­passion for veracity. —­absence of dogmatism in lectures. —­children and theology.  —­“Royal lies”. —­his great work, securing freedom of speech. —­carelessness of priority. —­recognition of predecessors. —­honesty. —­loyalty. —­friends and intimates. —­practical side of his work. —­how regarded by working-men. —­his face described, by Professor Osborn.