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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 :