Fit," he remarked to an interviewer after the Eugenic Conference, at which much was unhappily said
that wholly justified his caustic denunciation, "is a mere excuse
for establishing a medical
tyranny. And we have enough of thi s kind of tyranny already ... the world does not want the eugenist to set it straight.... Eugenics is simply the meddlesome interference of an arrogant scientific priestcraft." Thus his radicalism and his so-called fads were born of his high aspirations. He was not the recluse calmly spinning theories from a bewildering chaos of observations, and building up isolated facts into the unity of a great and illuminating conception

in the silence and solitude
of his library, unmindful of the great world of sin and sorrow without. He
could say with Darwin, "I was born a naturalist"; but we
can add that his heart was on fire with love for the toiling masses. He had felt the intense joy of
discovering a vast and splendid generalisation, which not only worked
a complete revolution in biological science, but has also illuminated the whole field of human knowledge. Yet his greatest

ambition
was to improve the cruel conditions under which thousands of his fe