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This etext was prepared by Amy E. Zelmer. This etext is based on^M http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE2/RelM-L-A.php^M ON THE RELATIONS OF MAN TO THE LOWER ANIMALS by Thomas H. Huxley Multis videri poterit, majorem esso differentiam Simiae et Hominis, quam diei et noctis; verum tamen hi, comparatione instituta inter summos Europae Heroes et Hottentottos ad Caput bonae spei

Processed by D.R. Thompson On the Method of Zadig by Thomas Henry Huxley This is Essay #1 from “Science and Hebrew Tradition” RETROSPECTIVE PROPHECY AS A FUNCTION OF SCIENCE “Une marque plus sure que toutes celles de Zadig.”<1>–Cuvier. It is an usual and a commendable practice to preface the discussion of the views of a

This etext was prepared by Amy E. Zelmer. ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE* by Thomas H. Huxley *A Lay Sermon delivered in St. Martin’s Hall on Sunday, January 7th, 1866, and subsequently published in the ‘Fortnightly Review’. This time two hundred years ago–in the beginning of January, 1666–those of our forefathers who inhabited

This etext was prepared by Amy E. Zelmer. ON SOME FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN by Thomas H. Huxley I HAVE endeavoured to show, in the preceding Essay, that the ANTHROPINI, or Man Family, form a very well defined group of the Primates, between which and the immediately following Family, the CATARHINI, there is, in the

The controversy respecting the nature and the extent of the differences in the structure of the brain in man and the apes, which arose some fifteen years ago, has not yet come to an end, though the subject matter of the dispute is, at present, totally different from what it was formerly. It was originally

Processed by D.R. Thompson Mr. Gladstone and Genesis by Thomas Henry Huxley This is Essay #5 from “Science and Hebrew Tradition” In controversy, as in courtship, the good old rule to be off with the old before one is on with the new, greatly commends itself to my sense of expediency. And, therefore, it appears

Processed by D.R. Thompson Lectures on Evolution This is Essay #3 from “Science and Hebrew Tradition” by Thomas Henry Huxley I THE THREE HYPOTHESES RESPECTING THE HISTORY OF NATURE We live in and form part of a system of things of immense diversity and perplexity, which we call Nature; and it is a matter of

EVOLUTION AND ETHICS AND OTHER ESSAYS BY THOMAS H. HUXLEY PREFACE THE discourse on “Evolution and Ethics,” reprinted in the first half of the present volume, was delivered before the University of Oxford, as the second of the annual lectures founded by Mr. Romanes: whose name I may not write without deploring the untimely death,

Produced by Imran Ghory, Stan Goodman, Richard Prairie and PG Distributed Proofreaders DISCOURSES: BIOLOGICAL & GEOLOGICAL ESSAYS BY THOMAS H. HUXLEY 1894 PREFACE The contents of the present volume, with three exceptions, are either popular lectures, or addresses delivered to scientific bodies with which I have been officially connected. I am not sure which gave

Branko Collin, Carlo Traverso, Charles Franks and the Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr. Thomas Henry Huxley Collected Essays (1893-1894) Vol. II Darwiniana (Edition: published in 1893) PREFACE I have entitled this volume “Darwiniana” because the pieces republished in it

Produced by Bill Hershey and PG Distributed Proofreaders =CRITIQUES AND ADDRESSES.= BY THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, LL.D., F.R.S. 1873. PREFACE. The “Critiques and Addresses” gathered together in this volume, like the “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews,” published three years ago, deal chiefly with educational, scientific, and philosophical subjects; and, in fact, indicate the high-water mark of