Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley
Part 13
I C. E. i. 16 II " i. 31 III " i. 40 IV " i. 41 V " i. 46 VI " i. 56 VII " i. 57 VIII " i. 60 IX " i. 62 X " i. 66 XI " i. 156 XII " i. 161 XIII " i. 163 XIV " i. 165 XV " i. 167 XVI " i. 168 XVII " i. 170 XVIII " i. 172 XIX " i. 172 XX " i. 178 XXI " i. 188 XXII " i. 192 XXIII " i. 193 XXIV " i. 198 XXV " i. 202 XXVI " i. 202 XXVII " i. 242 XXVIII " i. 244 XXIX " i. 244 XXX " i. 245 XXXI " i. 254 XXXII " i. 255 XXXIII " i. 256 XXXIV " i. 256 XXXV " i. 257 XXXVI " i. 261 XXXVII " i. 281 XXXVIII " i. 289 XXXIX " i. 291 XL " i. 309 XLI " i. 313 XLII " i. 313 XLIII " i. 319 XLIV " i. 319 XLV " i. 328 XLVI " i. 349 XLVII " i. 355 XLVIII " i. 368 XLIX " i. 426 L " i. 426 LI " ii. 5 LII " ii. 18 LIII " ii. 13 LIV " ii. 29 LV " ii. 32 LVI " ii. 32 LVII " ii. 52 LVIII " ii. 52 LIX " ii. 58 LX " ii. 59 LXI " ii. 53 LXII " ii. 59 LXIII " ii. 76 LXIV " ii. 149 LXV " ii. 149 LXVI " ii. 150 LXVII " ii. 229 LXVIII " ii. 229 LXIX " ii. 229 LXX " ii. 230 LXXI " ii. 252 LXXII " ii. 363 LXXIII " iii. 13 LXXIV " iii. 33 LXXV " iii. 36 LXXVI " iii. 45 LXXVII " iii. 45 LXXVIII " iii. 59 LXXIX " iii. 62 LXXX " iii. 63 LXXXI " iii. 67 LXXXII " iii. 78 LXXXIII " iii. 82 LXXXIV " iii. 83 LXXXV " iii. 84 LXXXVI " iii. 85 LXXXVII " iii. 85 LXXXVIII " iii. 85 LXXXIX " iii. 86 XC " iii. 91 XCI " iii. 174 XCII " iii. 179 XCIII " iii. 179 XCIV " iii. 183 XCV " iii. 185 XCVI " iii. 185 XCVII " iii. 187 XCVIII " iii. 188 XCIX " iii. 204 C " iii. 207 CI " iii. 208 CII " iii. 213 CIII " iii. 215 CIV " iii. 220 CV " iii. 225 CVI " iii. 228 CVII " iii. 236 CVIII " iii. 236 CIX " iii. 254 CX " iii. 260 CXI " iii. 273 CXII " iii. 282 CXIII " iii. 283 CXIV " iii. 299 CXV " iii. 306 CXVI " iii. 369 CXVII " iii. 393 CXVIII " iii. 393 CXIX " iii. 396 CXX " iii. 414 CXXI " iii. 422 CXXII " iii. 431 CXXIII " iii. 432 CXXIV " iii. 432 CXXV " iii. 439 CXXVI " iii. 443 CXXVII " iii. 443 CXXVIII " iii. 446 CXXIX " iii. 447 CXXX " v. 124 CXXXI " v. 125 CXXXII " v. 136 CXXXIII " v. 136 CXXXIV " v. 136 CXXXV " v. 143 CXXXVI " v. 156 CXXXVII " v. 157 CXXXVIII " v. 182 CXXXIX " v. 191 CXL " v. 206 CXLI " v. 241 CXLII " v. 245 CXLIII " v. 257 CXLIV " v. 257 CXLV " v. 313 CXLVI " v. 315 CXLVII " v. 315 CXLVIII " vi. p. viii CXLIX " vi. p. viii CL " vi. p. ix CLI " vi. 61 CLII " vi. 65 CLIII " vi. 123 CLIV " vi. 132 CLV " vi. 132 CLVI " vi. 143 CLVII " vi. 144 CLVIII " vi. 207 CLIX " vi. 231 CLX " vi. 235 CLXI " vi. 237 CLXII " vi. 237 CLXIII " vi. 239 CLXIV " vi. 239 CLXV " vi. 284 CLXVI " vi. 285 CLXVII " vi. 308 CLXVIII " vi. 318 CLXIX " vii. p. ix CLXX " vii. p. xi CLXXI " vii. 1 CLXXII " vii. 81 CLXXIII " vii. 92 CLXXIV " vii. 138 CLXXV " vii. 146 CLXXVI " vii. 146 CLXXVII " vii. 151 CLXXVIII " vii. 151 CLXXIX " vii. 154 CLXXX " vii. 210 CLXXXI " vii. 271 CLXXXII " vii. 278 CLXXXIII " vii. 280 CLXXXIV " vii. 313 CLXXXV " vii. 328 CLXXXVI " viii. p. v CLXXXVII " viii. p. viii CLXXXVIII " viii. p. viii CLXXXIX " viii. 4 CXC " viii. 7 CXCI " viii. 9 CXCII " viii. 10 CXCIII " viii. 12 CXCIV " viii. 19 CXCV " viii. 23 CXCVI " viii. 27 CXCVII " viii. 34 CXCVIII " viii. 36 CXCIX " viii. 53 CC " viii. 73 CCI " viii. 114 CCII " viii. 143 CCIII " viii. 147 CCIV " viii. 153 CCV " viii. 158 CCVI " viii. 159 CCVII " viii. 213 CCVIII " viii. 217 CCIX " viii. 218 CCX " viii. 218 CCXI " viii. 218 CCXII " viii. 219 CCXIII " viii. 224 CCXIV " viii. 225 CCXV " viii. 226 CCXVI " viii. 226 CCXVII " viii. 227 CCXVIII " viii. 233 CCXIX " viii. 244 CCXX " viii. 249 CCXXI " viii. 262 CCXXII " viii. 269 CCXXIII " viii. 306 CCXXIV " viii. 318 CCXXV " viii. 323 CCXXVI " viii. 333 CCXXVII " ix. p. ix CCXXVIII " ix. 4 CCXXIX " ix. 6 CCXXX " ix. 7 CCXXXI " ix. 8 CCXXXII " ix. 27 CCXXXIII " ix. 28 CCXXXIV " ix. 30 CCXXXV " ix. 31 CCXXXVI " ix. 39 CCXXXVII " ix. 41 CCXXXVIII " ix. 43 CCXXXIX " ix. 49 CCXL " ix. 49 CCXLI " ix. 51 CCXLII " ix. 54 CCXLIII " ix. 56 CCXLIV " ix. 61 CCXLV " ix. 64 CCXLVI " ix. 71 CCXLVII " ix. 73 CCXLVIII " ix. 74 CCXLIX " ix. 78 CCL " ix. 80 CCLI " ix. 81 CCLII " ix. 85 CCLIII " ix. 86 CCLIV " ix. 123 CCLV " ix. 130 CCLVI " ix. 134 CCLVII " ix. 141 CCLVIII " ix. 145 CCLIX " ix. 147 CCLX " ix. 149 CCLXI " ix. 152 CCLXII " ix. 158 CCLXIII " ix. 159 CCLXIV " ix. 162 CCLXV " ix. 168 CCLXVI " ix. 171 CCLXVII " ix. 182 CCLXVIII " ix. 186 CCLXIX " ix. 195 CCLXX " ix. 199 CCLXXI " ix. 201 CCLXXII " ix. 201 CCLXXIII " ix. 202 CCLXXIV " ix. 202 CCLXXV " ix. 204 CCLXXVI " ix. 207 CCLXXVII " ix. 209 CCLXXVIII " ix. 211 CCLXXIX " ix. 212 CCLXXX " ix. 216 CCLXXXI " ix. 227 CCLXXXII " ix. 229 CCLXXXIII " ix. 230 CCLXXXIV " ix. 233 CCLXXXV S. M. iv. 658 CCLXXXVI " iv. 663 CCLXXXVII " iv. 664 CCLXXXVIII " iv. 666 CCLXXXIX " iv. 666 CCXC " iv. 668 CCXCI " iv. 669 CCXCII " iv. 670 CCXCIII L. L. i. 171 CCXCIV " i. 196 CCXCV " i. 285 CCXCVI " i. 310 CCXCVII " i. 314 CCXCVIII " i. 315 CCXCIX " i. 315 CCC " i. 316 CCCI " i. 316 CCCII " i. 316 CCCIII " i. 317 CCCIV " i. 317 CCCV " i. 317 CCCVI " i. 317 CCCVII " i. 317 CCCVIII " i. 318 CCCIX " i. 326 CCCX " i. 345 CCCXI " i. 347 CCCXII " i. 350 CCCXIII " i. 363 CCCXIV " i. 400 CCCXV " i. 407 CCCXVI " i. 433 CCCXVII " i. 441 CCCXVIII " ii. 32 CCCXIX " ii. 42 CCCXX " ii. 111 CCCXXI " ii. 116 CCCXXII " ii. 128 CCCXXIII " ii. 140 CCCXXIV " ii. 140 CCCXXV " ii. 144 CCCXXVI " ii. 166 CCCXXVII " ii. 209 CCCXXVIII " ii. 215 CCCXXIX " ii. 216 CCCXXX " ii. 216 CCCXXXI " ii. 219 CCCXXXII " ii. 220 CCCXXXIII " ii. 222 CCCXXXIV " ii. 242 CCCXXXV " ii. 261 CCCXXXVI " ii. 266 CCCXXXVII " ii. 275 CCCXXXVIII " ii. 283 CCCXXXIX " ii. 292 CCCXL " ii. 305 CCCXLI " ii. 351 CCCXLII " ii. 358 CCCXLIII " ii. 358 CCCXLIV " ii. 401 CCCXLV " ii. 440 CCCXLVI " ii. 444 CCCXLVII " ii. 453 CCCXLVIII " iii. 4 CCCXLIX " iii. 7 CCCL " iii. 18 CCCLI " iii. 45 CCCLII " iii. 92 CCCLIII " iii. 115 CCCLIV " iii. 118 CCCLV " iii. 121 CCCLVI " iii. 142 CCCLVII " iii. 145 CCCLVIII " iii. 162 CCCLIX " iii. 172 CCCLX " iii. 172 CCCLXI " iii. 191 CCCLXII " iii. 192 CCCLXIII " iii. 216 CCCLXIV " iii. 217 CCCLXV " iii. 218 CCCLXVI " iii. 221 CCCLXVII " iii. 222 CCCLXVIII " iii. 223 CCCLXIX " iii. 223 CCCLXX " iii. 224 CCCLXXI " iii. 230 CCCLXXII " iii. 238 CCCLXXIII " iii. 243 CCCLXXIV " iii. 245 CCCLXXV " iii. 245 CCCLXXVI " iii. 311 CCCLXXVII " iii. 322 CCCLXXVIII " iii. 322 CCCLXXIX " iii. 323 CCCLXXX " iii. 330 CCCLXXXI " iii. 337 CCCLXXXII " iii. 345 CCCLXXXIII " iii. 356 CCCLXXXIV " iii. 395 CCCLXXXV " iii. 401
INDEX II
SUBJECT INDEX
Abiogenesis, defined, CCXVIII, CCXX, CCXXI
Able men, besetting sin of, CCCLXXII
Abstractions, CCCXLIII
Accuracy, CXXIII
Agnosticism defined, CXLII; _cf._ CL
---- origin of the term, CCLVI
Aim of life, CXXI, CCCXXXV
Alcohol and brain work, CCCLV
Analogies, scope of, CLIII
Analogy, Butler's, CCCXI, CCCXXX
Animals, mind in, CLIII
---- immortality, CCXCIX
Anniversaries, CCCXXXVIII
Ant, white, scientific method compared to, CCCLXXX
Anthropomorphism, CCCX
Antiquity of man, CLXXXII
Architecture, prehistoric, CLXXXIII
Armaments, cause of modern, CCCLXXIX
Arrogance, a check to, CLXXV
Art: the teaching of drawing, XCIV
---- and Christianity, CXLVI
Aryan question, CLXXXI
Ascent of man, LI, CLXXIX
Aspiration and immortality, CLVIII
---- and fact, CCC
Atheism, CCCXI
Atlantic Ocean, comparison with physiology, CIV
---- bed of, CLXXII
Authority, III, XIII, XIV, LXIV, LXVI, LXVII, CL
---- a worthless, CLXXIV; its struggle with freethought, CCCXX, CCCLXXII (_cf._ Scepticism)
Automata and the soul, XXII
Automatic virtue, XXII
Average opinion, government by, CCCXLV
Backwoodsman's work in science is acceptable, CCCLXIV
Baur, merits of as a critic, CCCLIV
Beauty, the sense of, CCLIV
Becky Sharp, LXXIV
Bees, comparison with, CV
Being, impermanence of, CCXL
---- the ultimate, CCLV
Belief, the bases of, LXX
---- and morality, CLXI, CXLV, CCXCVII
---- and rational grounds for, CXXXIX; _cf._ CCCLVI
---- consequences of right and wrong, CCCXXIX
Benevolence in nature, CCLXIX, CCCXXX
Best men, the, CXLIII
Biblical criticism, the key to, CCCLIV
Biogenesis, defined, CCXVIII, CCXX, CCXXI
Bishops and moral courage, CCCLXXXIII
Body, compared to an Army, CXVI
---- ---- to a loaded gun, CCLIX
Book-learning, CXIII, CCXVII
---- sought by the ancient University, CCCLXXI
Books, CII
---- good, and fools, CCCXVI
Brahma and the rule of life, CCXLV
Brain work and stimulants, CCCLV
Brutes, mental analogies with, CLIII
Butler's Analogy, CCCXI, CCCXXX
Cabanis, CCCLXI
Cant and shams, CCCLX
Capacity and incapacity, XXXI
Cape Horn of life, the, CCXCIII
Capital, vital, CCLIX, CCLXII
---- lately wages, CCLXVII
---- supposed antagonism to labour, CCLXVIII
Capitalist nature, CCVI
Carlyle, the lesson of, CCCLX
Catholicism _minus_ Christianity, XI
Causation, its universality, CLVI
Causes, natural, vast effects of, CXCVII
---- secondary, CLXXXVII
Certainty lies in thought, XVIII, XIX, CLII
---- absolute, the only, CCCLVIII; not given by induction, CCCLVIII
---- limits of, CLXVII
Chalk, the significance of, CLXXXIX
---- antiquity of, CXCVI
---- deep sea origin of, CXCIV
---- parentage of, CXC
---- present day formation of, CXCI
---- rate of formation, CXCV
---- the lesson of, CXCVIII
Chance, CLVI
Character and heredity, CCXLIV
Chessplayer, the hidden, LXXXIII; _cf._ Game
Child, death of a, CCCXLVI; _cf._ CCCLXIV
Children, influence of, CCCXVII, CCCLI
Christianity and Creeds, CXLI, CXLIV
---- and the intellectual world, CXLVI
---- its success alleged as proof of the story of Jesus, CCCLIII
---- primitive and later, CCCLIII
Church, the primitive and later, CCCLIII
Cinderella, the role of science, CCLVIII
Civilisation and suffering, CCXLII, CCCLVII
Class-feeling, high and low, LXXXII
Classical education, CCXIV
Clearness of thought, XXV
Clericalism and science, LVIII
Cleverness, CXV
---- is of small intrinsic value, CCCLXXIII
Coal and club-mosses, CCII
---- less important than education, CCCXIV
---- the preservation of, CCIV, CCVI
Cocksureness, CLXVII
Comet, a kindly, CCCLVII
Commerce and science, CLXXIII
Common facts and great principles, CXXIV
Common sense and science, LXXVI; and truth, CXII
Comte, XI, CXLIV
Conduct, laws of, how discoverable, CCCLXVIII
Conscience and sympathy, CCXXXIII
Consequences, logical, XXVIII
Conservation of energy and immortality, CCCLXI
Cosmic process and ethical process, CCLI
Creation and evolution, CCXXIX
Creeds, LXXI
---- disbelief in as a sin, CXLI, CXLV
Crime and heredity, CCXXXVI
Crowded street, life is like a, CCCXL
Culture and English literature, XCV
Cultured idleness, CV
Cuvier and common sense, CCXCI
Cyclical evolution, CCXXXIX
Dante, LXXX
Darwin, his work and methods, CCCLXXXII
Death of a child, CCCXLVI; _cf._ CCCLXIV
Deep sea soundings, CXCII
---- ---- glacial survivors in, CXCIX
Demagogues caused Socrates' death, CXLVIII
Demonstration, the essence of modern teaching, CCIX
Descartes, XV, XVII
---- his chief service, CLII, CLIV
Determinants of mental and moral activities, CXXXII
Development, CLXXII
Disciples not sought for, CCCLXIII
---- the curse of science, CCCLXXII
Dismal science, the, CCCLXXXI
Do as you would be done by, CCXXXV
Dogmatism, the nemesis of, CCLVIII
Doubt (_cf._ scepticism), XVII; _cf._ Unbelief and Creeds
Drawing, the teaching of, XCIV
---- as a discipline, CXXII
Duty, XIII, XVI
---- and happiness, CLX, CLXI
---- a man's first, CCCLXXIV
Economical Problem, in physiological terms, CCLIX
Economy, true, CCCXLIX
Education, mechanical basis of, XXI
---- a liberal, LXXXIX
---- ancient and modern, CCXV (_cf._ CCXII)
---- and conflict of studies, XCIII
---- and examinations, CVI
---- and fine buildings, L
---- by nature, LXXXV, LXXXVI; compared with artificial education, LXXXVIII
---- classical, the same for ancient Rome and modern England, CCXIV
---- defined, LXXXIV
---- effects of, XXXVIII
---- English, and culture, XCV
---- English untaught, XCVI
---- foreign languages in, XCVII
---- Latin and German in, XCVIII
---- more important than coal, CCCXIII
---- of the young, knowledge requisite for, CXXVI
---- technical, CCCXXXI
---- the, of practical work, CCCLXXIV
---- the purpose of primary, CCXIII
Eginhard, CXXXIX
Emotional chameleon (man), CCXXXIII
Empusa muscae, CCXXI
End of life, the great, CXXI, CCCXXXV
English literature and culture, XCV
---- untaught, XCVI
Equality, XL, XLII
Error (_cf._ Mistakes), CXXXVI
---- advantage of consistent, XCI
---- acknowledgment of, CXXXVII
---- and faith, CXXXVIII
---- old, the explosion of, CCCL
---- religious, CXLI, CXLV
Eternal order, the, CCXXXI
Ethical ideals necessary, CXIX
Ethical process, the, CCXXXIV
---- ---- and cosmic process, CCLI
---- ---- and the survival of the fittest, CCL
Ethics, modern, and old Israel, CXLVII
Ethnology, methods and results of, CLXXX
Eubiotics, CCCLXXXI
Evidence, judgment, and action, CCCLII
Evil, the existence of, CCXLVI
---- the insistence of, CCXLVII
Evolution and man, CLXXVI
---- and the millennium, CCLII
---- cyclical, CCXXXIX
---- described, CCXXIX
---- formulated by Kant, CCXXV
---- in history, CCCXLIV
---- slowness of, CCV
---- variation and selection are the bases of, CCXXX
Examinations, CVI
Existence and thought, XVIII, XIX
Expectation and verification, CCCLVIII
Fact and hypothesis, IX, CCXIX
---- and aspiration, CCC
---- and theory, CCLXXXVI
Faith, blind, effects of, CXXXVIII, CXXXIX
---- moral aspect of, CXLI, CXLV
---- which is born of knowledge, CCXXXI
Fall, doctrine of the, baseless, CCCLXII
Fallacies, the destruction of, LXXIII
---- their tenacity of life, CCCXXXVII
Fame, posthumous, CCCXXXIII; _cf._ CCCLXIII
Feeling and morality, CLXIII, CLXIV
Ferments, the first knowledge of, CCI
Florida paint-root, CLXXXVIII
Fly and silkworm disease, CCXXI
Fools and common-sense, CCCXXXIX
Force, CCCXLIII
Foreign languages, value of, XCVII
Forests, records of ancient, CCIII
Forms, the permanence of, CCXXVIII
Fox, George, CXXXIX
Frankness, reception of honest, CCXCV
Fraud, unconscious, CXXXVIII
Freedom, XXIII
---- dangers of, CVII
---- its struggle with tradition, CCCXX
---- of the will, CCLVII
---- of thought, CXXX
---- to go wrong in, CCCXV
Fugue, Nature's great, CCLXXXVIII
Function of the brain, thought as a, CCCLXI
Future of the world, CIX
---- retribution, CCCII, CCCIII, CCCIV, CCCV
---- ---- dangers of the doctrine, CCCVI, CCCVII
Galatians, Epistle to, the key to Christianity, CCCLIV
Game, life compared to a, LXXXIII; _cf._ CCCXII
Genius, XXXIV, CLIV, CLV
---- a faculty for "possession," CXXXIV
---- as motherwit, V
Gentleman, qualities of a, XXXV
Geological theories, CCXXIII; reconciliation of, CCXXV
---- fact and theory, CCXXIV
---- time, CLXXXVIII
Glacial survivors in the deep sea, CLXXVII
God and no God, XXX
---- the love of, CLXIII
Goethe and science, CCLXXXIX
---- defects of his scientific qualities, CCXC
Golden rule, the, CCXXXV
Good of mankind, XXXVII
Graduates in all the faculties of human relationships have thoughts beyond negative criticism, CCCLXIV
Greatness, XV
---- national, CX
Guide to life, XX
Habit, an invaluable, CCCLXXIV
Haman and Modecai, CCXXXIII
Happiness and moral duty, CLX
---- is in excess of pain, CCCIII
---- we are never certain of conferring it on others, CCCLXXXIV
Henslow, character of, CCCIX
Heredity and crime, CCXXXVI
---- and character, CCXLIV
Heresies (_cf._ Authority), LXVII
Hesitation, no good done by, CCCXXI
Historical truth a matter of science, CCCLII
History and physiology, LXXVIII
---- possible new teaching of, CCCXLIV
Human nature, no recent change in, CLXX
Humanity, religion of, CXLIV
Hume, CLVIII
Hutton, CCXXIII
Hypothesis and fact, IX, CCXIX
Ideal, necessity of ethical, CXIX
Idealism and materialism, CLXVIII
Ideas, men live by, CIX, CXI
---- innate, CLIV
---- necessary, CLVII
---- struggle for existence among, LXVIII
Idleness, cultured, in society, CV
Idolatry, intellectual, CCCXLIII
Ignorance, how treated by nature, LXXXVII
Imagination, scientific, CXXXI, CLXXXI
---- unscientific, CXLIX
Immortality, aspirations after, CLVIII
---- and conservation of energy, CCCLXI
---- and grief, CCCVIII
---- and probability, CCXCVII
---- animal, CCXCIX
---- disregarded by the highest ancient moral aspiration, CCCLXVI
Impermanence of being, CCXL
Incapacity, XXXI, LXXXVII
Indian Empire, a curse, CCCXXXIV
---- how to hold it, _ib._
Individual and society, XLVIII, LII
---- his debt to society, CCLXXXIII
---- not infallible, CCLXXXII
---- worth, the safeguard of society, CCCXXVII
Individualism, XLIX, L
---- limits of, CCLXXXI
Induction, does not confer absolute certainty, CCCLVIII
Industrialism and militarism, CCCLXXIX
Inert matter, CCCLXIII
Innate ideas, CLIV, CLV
Innocent pleasure of advancing years, CCCXXXIX
Instinct, CLIV, CLV
Intellectual instruction, merely, CXXVIII; less needful than moral, CCCXIX
---- matters, reason the guide in, CXLII
---- uncertainty, CXL
---- world and Christianity, CXLVI
Intoxication, mental, CXXXIII
Irony of history in science, CCXCII