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Collected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley

Collected Essays By Thomas Henry Huxley

Collected Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley


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Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) was an influential biologist and tireless campaigner for the improvement of science education. This nine-volume collection of essays, edited by him and published in 1893-4, illustrates the wide range of his intellectual interests. Volume 4 examines the relationship between theology and science.

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Collected Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

Known as 'Darwin's Bulldog', the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) was a tireless supporter of the evolutionary theories of his friend Charles Darwin. Huxley also made his own significant scientific contributions, and he was influential in the development of science education despite having had only two years of formal schooling. He established his scientific reputation through experiments on aquatic life carried out during a voyage to Australia while working as an assistant surgeon in the Royal Navy; ultimately he became President of the Royal Society (1883-5). Throughout his life Huxley struggled with issues of faith, and he coined the term 'agnostic' to describe his beliefs. This nine-volume collection of Huxley's essays, which he edited and published in 1893-4, demonstrates the wide range of his intellectual interests. In Volume 4, Huxley turns to the issue of faith and science, examining the apparent conflict between theology and evolution.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. On the method of Zadig [1880]; 2. The rise and progress of palaeontology [1881]; 3. Lectures on evolution [1876]; 4. The interpreters of Genesis and the interpreters of nature [1885]; 5. Mr. Gladstone and Genesis [1886]; 6. The lights of the church and the light of science [1890]; 7. Hasisadra's adventure [1891]; 8. The evolution of theology: an anthropological study [1886].

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NLS9781108040549
9781108040549
1108040543
Collected Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2011-12-29
394
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