Thomas Henry Huxley’s message to the USA in his address at the opening of Johns Hopkins University in 1876
Malcolm Peaker (noreply@blogger.com)
Darwin's bulldog was invited to give an opening address at the opening of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, on 12 September 1876. The address included:
I am not in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur; territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs a true sublimity, and the terror overhanging fate is - What are you going to do with all these things?…The one condition of success, your sole safeguard, is..