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All of us owe a vast debt to Huxley, especially all of us of English speech, for it was he, more than any other man, who worked that great change in human thought which marked the Nineteenth Century.
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H. L. Mencken in "Thomas Henry Huxley" in the Baltimore Evening Sun (4 May 1925).

 

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