Thomas Henry Huxley: Science and Culture, and Other Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley: Science and Culture, and Other Essays
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This insightful work presents the collected essays of Thomas Henry Huxley. He was a renowned English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He was popularly known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for supporting Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. In addition, Huxley is famous for coining the term "agnosticism" and elaborated on it to state the nature of claims regarding what is knowable and what is not. This collection of his addresses, lectures, and essays is a must-read for anyone curious about evolution theory and biology.

Contents include:

Science and Culture

Universities: Actual and Ideal

Technical Education

Elementary Instruction in Physiology

Joseph Priestley

On the Method of Zadig

On the Border Territory Between the Animal and the Vegetable Kingdoms

On Certain Errors Respecting the Structure of the Heart Attributed to Aristotle

On the Hypothesis That Animals Are Automata, and Its History

On Sensation and the Unity of Structure of the Sensiferous Organs

Evolution in Biology

The Coming of Age of "the Origin of Species"

The Connection of the Biological Sciences With Medicine