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Title: Lectures and Essays
Author: T.H. Huxley
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Lectures and Essays
by T.H. Huxley
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THE PEOPLE'S LIBRARY.
LECTURES AND ESSAYS.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY.
EDITOR'S NOTE.

Of the great thinkers of the nineteenth century, Thomas Henry Huxley,
son of an Ealing schoolmaster, was undoubtedly the most noteworthy. His
researches in biology, his contributions to scientific controversy, his
pungent criticisms of conventional beliefs and thoughts have probably
had greater influence than the work of any other English scientist. And
yet he was a "self-made" intellectualist. In spite of the fact that his
father was a schoolmaster he passed through no regular course of
education. "I had," he said, "two years of a pandemonium of a school
(between eight and ten) and after that neither help nor sympathy in any
intellectual direction till I reached manhood." When he was twelve a
craving for reading found satisfaction in Hutton's "Geology," and when
fifteen in Hamilton's "Logic."

At seventeen Huxley entered as a student at Charing Cross Hospital, and
three years later he was M.B. and the possessor of the gold medal for
anatomy and physiology. An appointment as surgeon in the navy proved to
be the entry to Huxley's great scientific career, for he was gazetted to
the "Rattlesnake", commissioned for surveying work in Torres Straits. He
was attracted by the teeming surface life of tropical seas and his study
of it was the commencement of that revolution in scientific knowledge
ultimately brought about by his researches.

Thomas Henry Huxley was born at Ealing on May 4, 1825, and died at
Eastbourne June 29, 1895.
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LECTURES
AND
ESSAYS
BY
T.H. HUXLEY.

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD.
LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK, TORONTO & MELBOURNE.
MCMVIII.

***
CONTENTS.

ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CAUSES OF THE PHENOMENA OF ORGANIC NATURE:
THE PRESENT CONDITION OF ORGANIC NATURE.
THE PAST CONDITION OF ORGANIC NATURE.
THE METHOD BY WHICH THE CAUSES OF THE PRESENT AND PAST CONDITIONS OF

ORGANIC NATURE ARE TO BE DISCOVERED.--THE ORIGINATION OF LIVING BEINGS.
THE PERPETUATION OF LIVING BEINGS, HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION AND
VARIATION.
THE CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE AS AFFECTING THE PERPETUATION OF LIVING
BEINGS.

A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE POSITION OF MR. DARWIN'S WORK, "ON THE
ORIGIN OF SPECIES," IN RELATION TO THE COMPLETE THEORY OF THE CAUSES OF
THE PHENOMENA OF ORGANIC NATURE.

ESSAYS ON DARWIN'S "ORIGIN OF SPECIES":
THE DARWINIAN HYPOTHESIS.
TIME AND LIFE.
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.
CRITICISMS ON "THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES".

EVIDENCE AS TO MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE:
ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN-LIKE APES.
ON THE RELATIONS OF MAN TO THE LOWER ANIMALS.
ON SOME FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN.

ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE.
ON THE STUDY OF ZOOLOGY.
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