Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work

Huxley's life followed the quiet and even tenor of that of a professional man of science and letters. The great adventure in it was his youthful voyage on the _Rattlesnake_. Tha...

Beginning Palæontological Work--Fossil Amphibia and Reptilia--Ancestry of Birds--Ancestry of the Horse--Imperfect European Series Completed by Marsh's American Fossils--Meaning...

Even before the publication of _The Origin of Species_ there was a considerable nervousness in the minds of the more orthodox as to discussions on the position of the human spec...

Early Ideas on Evolution--Erasmus Darwin--Lamarck--Herbert Spencer--Difference between Evolution and Natural Selection--Huxley's Preparation for Evolution--The Novelty of Natura...

The _Rattlesnake_ was paid off at Chatham on November 9, 1850. In the natural course of events Huxley would have been appointed before long to active service upon another ship....

Less than half a century ago, there was practically no generally diffused knowledge of even the elements of science and practically no provision for teaching it. Medical student...

Huxley's Prevision of the Battle--The Causes of the Battle--The _Times_ Review--Sir Richard Owen attacks Darwinism in the _Edinburgh Review_--Bishop Wilberforce attacks in the _...

Her Majesty's ship the _Rattlesnake_, one of the old class of 28-gun ships, sailed from Plymouth for the Torres Straits and the Australian seas on December 12, 1846. Her command...

Establishment of Compulsory Education in England--The Religious Controversy--Huxley Advocates the Bible without Theology--His Compromise on the "Cowper-Temple" Clause--Influence...

Why Huxley Came to Write about the Bible--A _Magna Charta_ of the Poor--The Theological Use of the Bible--The Doctrine of Biblical Infallibility--The Bible and Science--The Thre...

As the _Rattlesnake_ sailed through the tropical seas Huxley came in contact with the very peculiar and interesting inhabitants of the surface of the sea, known now to naturalis...

We have seen that some of the most important of the contributions made by Huxley to zoölogical knowledge were in the field of the lower animals, especially of those marine forms...

Science and Metaphysics--Berkeley, Hume, and Hobbes--Existence of Matter and Mind--Descartes's Contribution--Materialism and Idealism--Criticism of Materialism--Berkeley's Ideal...

Conduct and Metaphysics--Conventional and Critical Minds--Good and Evil--Huxley's Last Appearance at Oxford--The Ethical Process and the Cosmic Process--Man's Intervention--The...

Authority and Knowledge in Science--The Duty of Doubt--Authority and Individual Judgment in Religion--The Protestant Position--Sir Charles Lyell and the Deluge--Infallibility--T...

A great body of fine work in science and literature has been produced by persons who may be described as typically academic. Such persons confine their interest in life within t...

Some men are born to greatness: even before their arrival in the world their future is marked out for them. All the advantages that wealth and the experience of friends can brin...

This list is offered, not as a bibliography in the technical sense, but as an indication of the sources in which the vast majority of Huxley's scientific and general work may be...

Why Huxley Came to Write about the Bible--A _Magna Charta_ of the Poor--The Theological Use of the Bible--The Doctrine of Biblical Infallibility--The Bible and Science--The Thre...

Huxley's Prevision of the Battle--The Causes of the Battle--The _Times_ Review--Sir Richard Owen attacks Darwinism in the _Edinburgh Review_--Bishop Wilberforce attacks in the _...

Establishment of Compulsory Education in England--The Religious Controversy--Huxley Advocates the Bible without Theology--His Compromise on the "Cowper-Temple" Clause--Influence...

Early Ideas on Evolution--Erasmus Darwin--Lamarck--Herbert Spencer--Difference between Evolution and Natural Selection--Huxley's Preparation for Evolution--The Novelty of Natura...

Conduct and Metaphysics--Conventional and Critical Minds--Good and Evil--Huxley's Last Appearance at Oxford--The Ethical Process and the Cosmic Process--Man's Intervention--The...

Authority and Knowledge in Science--The Duty of Doubt--Authority and Individual Judgment in Religion--The Protestant Position--Sir Charles Lyell and the Deluge--Infallibility--T...

Beginning Palæontological Work--Fossil Amphibia and Reptilia--Ancestry of Birds--Ancestry of the Horse--Imperfect European Series Completed by Marsh's American Fossils--Meaning...

Science and Metaphysics--Berkeley, Hume, and Hobbes--Existence of Matter and Mind--Descartes's Contribution--Materialism and Idealism--Criticism of Materialism--Berkeley's Ideal...