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Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions By: Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) |
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ESSAYS UPON SOME CONTROVERTED QUESTIONS BY THOMAS H. HUXLEY, F.R.S. London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1892 All rights reserved
{v} CONTENTS PROLOGUE Page 1 I THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF PALÆONTOLOGY An Address delivered at the York Meeting of the British Association
for the Advancement of Science, 1881 55 II THE INTERPRETERS OF GENESIS AND THE INTERPRETERS OF
NATURE Nineteenth Century , December 1885 75 III MR GLADSTONE AND GENESIS Nineteenth Century , February 1886 98 Note on the proper sense of the "Mosaic" narrative of the Creation 126 IV THE EVOLUTION OF THEOLOGY: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY Nineteenth Century , March and April 1886 131 V SCIENCE AND MORALS Fortnightly Review , November 1886 209 {vi}
VI SCIENTIFIC AND PSEUDO SCIENTIFIC REALISM Nineteenth Century , February 1887 237 VII SCIENCE AND PSEUDO SCIENCE Nineteenth Century , April 1887 265 VIII AN EPISCOPAL TRILOGY Nineteenth Century , November 1887 298 IX AGNOSTICISM Nineteenth Century , February 1889 329 X THE VALUE OF WITNESS TO THE MIRACULOUS Nineteenth Century , March 1889 378 XI AGNOSTICISM: A REJOINDER Nineteenth Century , April 1889 407 XII AGNOSTICISM AND CHRISTIANITY Nineteenth Century , June 1889 449 XIII THE LIGHTS OF THE CHURCH AND THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE Nineteenth Century , July 1890 501 {vii}
XIV THE KEEPERS OF THE HERD OF SWINE Nineteenth Century , December 1890 535 XV ILLUSTRATIONS OF MR. GLADSTONE'S CONTROVERSIAL METHODS Nineteenth Century , March 1891 559 XVI HASISADRA'S ADVENTURE Nineteenth Century , June 1891 583
{viii} I am indebted to the Editors of the Nineteenth Century and of the
Fortnightly Review for permission to reprint such of the following Essays
as have appeared in the pages of those periodicals: and so large a
proportion of the papers has been published in the Nineteenth Century
that my acknowledgments are especially due to Mr. Knowles. T. H. H. May 4, 1892. {1}
PROLOGUE Le plus grand service qu'on puisse rendre Ă la science est d'y faire
place nette avant d'y rien construire. CUVIER. Most of the Essays comprised in the present volume have been written during
the last six or seven years, without premeditated purpose or intentional
connection, in reply to attacks upon doctrines which I hold to be well
founded; or in refutation of allegations respecting matters lying within
the province of natural knowledge, which I believe to be erroneous; and
they bear the mark of their origin in the controversial tone which pervades
them. Of polemical writing, as of other kinds of warfare, I think it may be said,
that it is often useful, sometimes necessary, and always more or less of an
evil. It is useful, when it attracts attention to topics which might
otherwise be neglected; and when, as does sometimes happen, those who come
to see a contest remain to think... Continue reading book >>
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