napless vesture of humility.” He has stripped himself like Lear 
till he fulfills the ideal of Thomas Huxley, who wrote in 1868 in 
his essay on “A Liberal Education”:

     “That man, I think, has had a liberal education who 
     has been so trained in his youth that his body is the 
     ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure 
     all the work, that as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose 
     intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all the parts of 
     equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready like a 
     steam engine to be turned to any kind of work. . . .” (57)

     Close on the sentimental heels of this scientific vision 
came the figure of Sherlock Holmes of whom Doyle said in A  
Scandal in Bohemia :