The Association scheme is undoubtedly a compromise—but it is a compromise which takes us the right way, while the former schemes led nowhere except to chaos.
[He writes to Sir W.H. Flower:—]
Hodeslea, Eastbourne, June 27, 1892.
My dear Flower,
I had quite given up the hope that anything but some wretched compromise would come of the University Commission, when I found, to my surprise, no less than gratification, that a strong party among the younger men were vigorously taking the matter up in the right (that is, MY) sense.
In spite of all my good resolves to be a "hermit old in mossy cell," I have enlisted—for ambulance service if nothing better.
The move is too important to spare oneself if one can be of any good.
Ever yours very faithfully,
T.H. Huxley.
[Of his work in this position Professor Karl Pearson says, in a letter to me:—