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 the extra-scientific world, his aspirations might be described with curious accuracy in the words of the poet whom he held to have appreciated most clearly the tendencies of modern scientific thought. The first speaker in Tennyson's Two Voices recalls the early phase when he listened as 'the distant battle flashed and rung': sang his joyful Pæan, and burnished his weapons,

He was to carve out

to reach through

and finally to die,

but,

Huxley, indeed, never gave in to the despondency which led the second voice to recommend