Collected Essays: Volume 5 - Brossura

Huxley, Thomas Henry

 
9781108040556: Collected Essays: Volume 5

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A nine-volume collection of essays and lectures published in 1893–4 by one of Victorian England's most influential biologists.

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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 5 examines Huxley's dissatisfaction with Christianity, and his agnosticism.

Contenuti

Preface; 1. Prologue (Controverted questions, 1892); 2. Scientific and pseudo-scientific realism [1887]; 3. Science and pseudo-science [1887]; 4. An episcopal trilogy [1887]; 5. The value of witness to the miraculous [1889]; 6. Possibilities and impossibilities [1891]; 7. Agnosticism [1889]; 8. Agnosticism: a rejoinder [1889]; 9. Agnosticism and Christianity [1889]; 10. The keepers of the herd of swine [1890]; 11. Illustrations of Mr. Gladstone's controversial methods [1891].

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