Darwin's bulldog was invited to give an opening address at the opening of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, on 12 September 1876. The address included:
I am not in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur; territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs a true sublimity, and the terror overhanging fate is - What are you going to do with all these things?…The one condition of success, your sole safeguard, is the moral worth, and intellectual clearness of the individual citizen.
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| Thomas Henry Huxley Photograph by Lock & Whitfield Wellcome Collection |
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