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Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825–95, English biologist and educator, grad. Charing Cross Hospital, 1845. Huxley gave up his own biological research to become an influential scientific publicist and was the principal exponent of Darwinism in England. An agnostic (see agnosticism agnosticism (ăgnŏs`tĭsĭzəm) ..... Click the link for more information. ), he doubted all things not immediately open to logical analysis and scientific verification. He held up truth as an ideal and spoke and wrote frequently on its tool, the scientific method, and its yield, the evolutionary theory. He placed human ethics outside the scope of the materialistic processes of evolution; he believed that civilization is man's protest against nature and that progress is achieved by the human control of evolution. Huxley held numerous public offices, serving on 10 royal commissions (1862–84). His many works include Evolution and Ethics (1893), Collected Essays (9 vol., 1893–94), Scientific Memoirs (4 vol., 1898–1902), and an autobiography (1903). BibliographySee selected writings, ed. by C. Bibby (1967); biographies by Huxley's son Leonard (1920, repr. 1969) and C. Bibby (1972). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For example, Thomas Huxley ("Darwin's bull-dog") saw Darwinism as the perfect opportunity to set up a secular religion to rival Christianity but still believed in "saltations," big leaps in evolution to account for the transition from, say, fox to dog, and even claimed that "there is a wider teleology, that is not touched by the doctrine of evolution. There is some comfort, but also some shock value, in realizing that many of the debates about higher education that we are poised to engage, just over the threshold of the twenty-first century, were rehearsed in very similar terms 150 years ago by the likes of Newman, Matthew Arnold, and Thomas Huxley in England. The theory of evolution was postulated by British naturalist (a) Henry Marcus Beagle; (b) Charles Robert Darwin; (c) Sir Alexander Fleming; (d) Thomas Huxley. |
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