Huxley, Thomas Henry
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Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–95), biologist. In 1860 he had a memorable passage of words with S.
Wilberforce, Bp. of Oxford, on the subject of evolution. He defended the view that man descended from the lower animal world in his
Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863) and in a lecture on ‘The Physical Basis of Life’ in 1863 he discussed a form of
agnosticism. Man, he argued, cannot know the nature of either spirit or matter; metaphysics is impossible; and man's primary duty in life is the relief of misery and ignorance. While he stressed the merits of scientific education, he held that it should be supplemented by study of the Bible as the only means by which religious feeling, the basis of moral conduct, could be sustained. In a study of D.
Hume (1879) he discussed miracles, which he declined to reject out of hand.
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Alan P. Barr, ed., Thomas Henry Huxley's Place in Science and Letters: Centenary Essays.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; Alan P. Barr, ed., Thomas Henry Huxley's Place in Science and Letters: Centenary...Georgia P, 1997), 353 PP., $50 cloth; Thomas Henry Huxley, The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley, ed. Alan P. Barr (U of Georgia P...
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J. Vernon Jensen, Thomas Henry Huxley: Communicating for Science.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 9/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; J. Vernon Jensen, Thomas Henry Huxley: Communicating for Science...Atlantis of works and mind. Thomas Henry Huxley, preeminent among Victorian...itself. J. Vernon Jensen's Thomas Henry Huxley: Communicating for Science...
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Thomas Henry Huxley: the evolution of a scientist.(Review)
Magazine article from: Ecology; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Lyons, Sherrie L. 1999. Thomas Henry Huxley: the evolution of a scientist...interested in a biography of T. H. Huxley? Surely the ideas expressed so...philosophers of sciences. In fact, Huxley's popular legacy may well have...
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The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review; 4/1/1998; ; 324 words
; The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley, edited by Alan P. Barr. Thomas Henry Huxley, eminent Victorian, man of letters, and early defender of Darwinian principle, has all...
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The evolution of a myth. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/17/1988; 700+ words
; ...scrutiny of modern historians. And Thomas Henry Huxley did not, by mighty rhetoric and...story. Wilberforce did ask whether Huxley was content to acknowledge his...conceal scientific truth. But Huxley's remarks did not make much of...
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Great Geographers: Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley.
Magazine article from: Focus on Geography; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...scientists of the Nineteenth Century, Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley, who are best known as biologists but also qualify...biogeography, rests strongly on the foundations Darwin and Huxley helped lay. Charles Darwin Charles Darwin (1809...
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Reading the fossils of faith: Thomas Henry Huxley and the evolutionary subtext of the synoptic problem.
Magazine article from: Church History; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; In a book loaded with metaphors of assault and retaliation, Andrew Dickson White's A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom saved one of the best for Darwin. "Darwin's Origin of Species," we are told, came "into the theological world like a plough into an ant-hill.
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Sir Julian Huxley bridged biology and humanity.(NATURAL SCIENCE)
Magazine article from: World and I; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...World." His father, Leonard Huxley (1860-1933), was a prolific...works. His paternal grandfather, Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), was a well...Julian's maternal grandfather, Thomas Arnold, Jr. (1823-1900...
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Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest.
Magazine article from: National Review; 2/9/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...to worlds being blown away? Thomas Henry Huxley, a/k/a "Darwin's Bulldog...who liked their calm tone. Thomas Huxley was born in 1825 above a butcher...had instructed the young John Henry Newman -- Thomas spent his early teens in the...
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Mr. Huxley Takes a Trip
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/29/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...misgivings and plunges ahead. Huxley was born in 1894 to a family of...pedigree. He was a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the early champion of Darwin's theories; a great-grandson of Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby and...
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Huxley, Thomas Henry
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Huxley, Thomas Henry ( b . Earling, Middlesex...paleontology, ethnology. Thomas Henry Huxley was the seventh and youngest...school in Ealing which Thomas Henry attended for a brief period...reguar instruction which Huxley received was minimal and...
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Thomas Henry Huxley The English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) is most famous as "Darwin's bulldog," that is, as the man who led the fight for the acceptance of Darwin's theory of evolution. On May 4, 1825, T. H. Huxley...
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Julian Huxley
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...UNESCO). Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was born June 22, 1887, in London, England. His father, Leonard Huxley, master of Charterhouse School...grandfather, the famous evolutionist Thomas Henry Huxley. Julian traced his thinking in...
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Aldous Leonard Huxley 1894-1963, English author; grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley . Educated at Eton and Oxford, he traveled widely...the verge of blindness from the time he was 16, Huxley devoted much time and energy in an effort to improve...
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley 1887-1975, English biologist and...educated at Oxford; grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley. He taught at the Rice Institute...1974). Also, he edited T. H. Huxley's Diary of the Voyage of H.M...
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