Lectures and Essays
T.H. Huxley Lectures and Essays
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Lectures and Essays...... 1 T.H. Huxley...... 1 EDITOR'S NOTE...... 1 ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CAUSES OF THE PHENOMENA OF ORGANIC NATURE...... 2 NOTICE TO THE FIRST EDITION...... 2 THE PRESENT CONDITION OF ORGANIC NATURE...... 2 THE PAST CONDITION OF ORGANIC NATURE...... 10 THE METHOD BY WHICH THE CAUSES OF THE PRESENT AND PAST CONDITIONS OF ORGANIC8 NATURE ARE TO BE DISCOVERED. THE ORIGINATION OF LIVING BEINGS. THE PERPETUATION OF LIVING BEINGS, HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION AND VARIATION.8 THE CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE AS AFFECTING THE PERPETUATION OF LIVING BEINGS.5 A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE POSITION OF MR. DARWIN'S WORK, ON THE ORIGIN4 OF SPECIES, IN RELATION TO THE COMPLETE THEORY OF THE CAUSES OF THE PHENOMENA OF ORGANIC NATURE. THE DARWINIAN HYPOTHESIS.*...... 53 TIME AND LIFE.*...... 60 THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.*...... 65 CRITICISMS ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES .* ...... 83 EVIDENCE AS TO MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE...... 93 ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN−LIKE APES...... 93 ON THE RELATIONS OF MAN TO THE LOWER ANIMALS...... 116 ON SOME FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN...... 144 ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE.*...... 160 ON THE STUDY OF ZOOLOGY.*...... 168 CORAL AND CORAL REEFS.*...... 189 YEAST...... 197 WILLIAM HARVEY AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD...... 204 THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD.*...... 204
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• EDITOR'S NOTE. • ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CAUSES OF THE PHENOMENA OF ORGANIC NATURE. • NOTICE TO THE FIRST EDITION. • 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. • 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.* • CORAL AND CORAL REEFS.* • YEAST. • WILLIAM HARVEY AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD. • THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD.*
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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
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