{"date":"May 4","id":"05-04","intro":["When science was struggling for a place in popular education, Huxley distinguished himself as its champion. While the arts were to beautify life and increase pleasure, Huxley saw science as a means of benefiting man’s prosperity."],"minutes":22,"readings":[{"author":"Thomas Henry Huxley","end":219,"start":209,"volume":28,"work":"Science and Culture"}],"slug":"may-4","status":"proofread","title":"A Champion of Science","url":"/harvard-classics/may-4/","words":4379}