76 (return) [ The Principal Subjects of Education: an extract from the essay, Science and Art in Relation to Education.]
77 (return) [ this discussion: "this" refers to the last sentence in the preceding paragraph, in which Huxley says that it will be impossible to determine the amount of time to be given to the principal subjects of education until it is determined "what the principal subjects of education ought to be."]
78 (return) [ Francis Bacon: cf. note [Footnote 26].]
79 (return) [ the best chance of being happy: In connection with Huxley's work on the London School Board, his biographer says that Huxley did not regard "intellectual training only from the utilitarian point of view; he insisted, e. g., on the value of reading for amusement as one of the most valuable uses to hardworked people."]
80 (return) [ "Harmony in grey": cf. with l. 34 in Browning's Andrea del Sarto.]
81 (return) [ Hobbes (1588-1679): noted for his views of human nature and of politics. According to Minto, "The merits ascribed to his style are brevity, simplicity and precision."]
82 (return) [ Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753): an Irish prelate noted for his philosophical writings and especially for his theory of vision which was the foundation for modern investigations of the subject. "His style has always been esteemed admirable; simple, felicitous and sweetly melodious. His dialogues are sustained with great skill." Minto's Manual of English Prose Literature.]
83 (return) [ We have been recently furnished with in prose: The Iliad of Homer translated by Lang, Leaf and Myers, the first edition of which appeared in 1882, is probably the one to which Huxley refers. The Odyssey, translated by Butcher and Lang, appeared in 1879. Among the best of the more recent translations of Homer are the Odyssey by George Herbert Palmer; the Iliad by Arthur S. Way, and the Odyssey by the same author.]
84 (return) [ Locke (1632-1704): an English philosopher of great influence. His chief work is An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.]
85 (return) [ Franciscus Bacon sic cogitavit: thus Francis Bacon thought.]
