Writer: Professor Thomas Henry Huxley

This etext was prepared by Amy E. Zelmer. TIME AND LIFE* MR. DARWIN’S “ORIGIN OF SPECIES” by Thomas H. Huxley *”Macmillan’s Magazine”, December 1859. EVERYONE knows that that superficial film of the earth’s substance, hardly ten miles thick, which is accessible to human investigation, is composed for the most part of beds or strata of

Processed by D.R. Thompson The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study by Thomas Henry Huxley This is Essay #8 from “Science and Hebrew Tradition” I conceive that the origin, the growth, the decline, and the fall of those speculations respecting the existence, the powers, and the dispositions of beings analogous to men, but more or

by Thomas Henry Huxley This is Essay #2 from “Science and Hebrew Tradition” That application of the sciences of biology and geology, which is commonly known as palaeontology, took its origin in the mind of the first person who, finding something like a shell, or a bone, naturally imbedded in gravel or rock, indulged in

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

This etext was prepared by Amy E. Zelmer. THE PERPETUATION OF LIVING BEINGS, HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION AND VARIATION by Thomas Henry Huxley The inquiry which we undertook, at our last meeting, into the state of our knowledge of the causes of the phenomena of organic nature,–of the past and of the present,–resolved itself into two subsidiary

This etext was prepared by Amy E. Zelmer. THE PAST CONDITION OF ORGANIC NATURE by Thomas H. Huxley IN the lecture which I delivered last Monday evening, I endeavoured to sketch in a very brief manner, but as well as the time at my disposal would permit, the present condition of organic nature, meaning by

This etext was prepared by Amy E. Zelmer. This etext is based on^M http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE2/OrS.php^M THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES* by Thomas H. Huxley *’The Westminster Review’, April 1860. MR. DARWIN’S long-standing and well-earned scientific eminence probably renders him indifferent to that social notoriety which passes by the name of success; but if the calm spirit of

Processed by D.R. Thompson The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science by Thomas Henry Huxley This is Essay #6 from “Science and Hebrew Tradition” There are three ways of regarding any account of past occurrences, whether delivered to us orally or recorded in writing. The narrative may be exactly true. That is

Processed by D.R. Thompson The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature by Thomas Henry Huxley This is Essay #4 from “Science and Hebrew Tradition” Our fabulist warns “those who in quarrels interpose” of the fate which is probably in store for them; and, in venturing to place myself between so powerful a controversialist

This etext was prepared by Amy E. Zelmer. This etext is based on http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE2/Hypo.php THE DARWINIAN HYPOTHESIS* by Thomas H. Huxley *’Times’, December 26th, 1850. DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. THERE is a growing immensity in the speculations of science to which no human thing or thought at this day is comparable. Apart from

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