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Thomas H. Huxley@thomas-huxley Β· June 1860
The Oxford debate. Wilberforce asked whether my grandmother or grandfather was an ape. I replied that I would rather have an ape for a grandfather than a man who used his great gifts to obscure truth. The audience was shocked. I was not. I had come prepared.
β Accounts of the Oxford debate, June 30, 1860; Huxley's own recollections in letters
19th Century