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Lectures and Essays

Lectures and Essays

by Thomas Henry Huxley

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Author
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895
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Produced by Sue Asscher and David Widger
Language
English
LoC Class
Q: Science
Subject
Science
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eBook-No.
6414
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6414
Release Date
September 1, 2004
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.LECTURES AND ESSAYS
  2. 2.By T.H. Huxley — The People's Library Cassell And Company, Ltd. London, Paris, New York, Toronto & Melbourne. MCMVIII.
  3. 3.EDITOR'S NOTE.
  4. 4.NOTICE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  5. 5.ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CAUSES OF THE PHENOMENA OF ORGANIC NATURE:
  6. 6.THE PRESENT CONDITION OF ORGANIC NATURE.
  7. 7.THE PAST CONDITION OF ORGANIC NATURE.
  8. 8.THE METHOD BY WHICH THE CAUSES OF THE PRESENT AND PAST CONDITIONS OF ORGANIC NATURE ARE TO BE DISCOVERED.—THE ORIGINATION OF LIVING BEINGS.
  9. 9.THE PERPETUATION OF LIVING BEINGS, HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION AND VARIATION.
  10. 10.THE CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE AS AFFECTING THE PERPETUATION OF LIVING BEINGS.
  11. 11.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.
  12. 12.THE DARWINIAN HYPOTHESIS.* — ([Footnote] *'Times', December 26th, 1850.)
  13. 13.DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.
  14. 14.TIME AND LIFE.* — ([Footnote] *"Macmillan's Magazine", December 1859.)
  15. 15.MR. DARWIN'S "ORIGIN OF SPECIES".
  16. 16.THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.* — ([Footnote] *'The Westminster Review', April 1860.)
  17. 17.CRITICISMS ON "THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES".* — ([Footnote] *'The Natural History Review', 1864.)
  18. 18.EVIDENCE AS TO MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE — 1863.
  19. 19.ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN-LIKE APES.
  20. 20.ON THE RELATIONS OF MAN TO THE LOWER ANIMALS.
  21. 21.A SUCCINCT HISTORY OF THE CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE CEREBRAL STRUCTURE OF MAN AND THE APES.
  22. 22.ON SOME FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN.
  23. 23.ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE.*
  24. 24.ON THE STUDY OF ZOOLOGY.*
  25. 25.GEOLOGICAL CONTEMPORANEITY AND PERSISTENT TYPES OF LIFE.*
  26. 26.CORAL AND CORAL REEFS.* — ([Footnote] *A Lecture delivered in Manchester, November 4th, 1870.)
  27. 27.YEAST.
  28. 28.WILLIAM HARVEY AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD.

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