Thomas Henry Huxley: 52 books

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. THE question of questions for mankind— the problem which underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any other— is the ascertainment of the place which Man occupies in nature and of his relations to the universe of things....

THE discourse on “Evolution and Ethics, ” reprinted in the first half of the present volume, was delivered before the University of Oxford, as the second of the annual lectures founded by Mr. Romanes: whose name I may not write without deploring the untimely death, in the flower of his age, of a...

This time two hundred years ago— in the beginning of January, 1666— those of our forefathers who inhabited this great and ancient city, took breath between the shocks of two fearful calamities: one not quite past, although its fury had abated; the other to come.

Some thousands of years ago there was a city in Mesopotamia called Surippak. One night a strange dream came to a dweller therein, whose name, if rightly reported, was Hasisadra. The dream foretold the speedy coming of a great flood; and it warned Hasisadra to lose no time in building a ship, in which,...

Our fabulist warns “those who in quarrels interpose” of the fate which is probably in store for them; and, in venturing to place myself between so powerful a controversialist as Mr. Gladstone and the eminent divine whom he assaults with such vigour in the last number of this Review, 1 I am fully...

In the two preceding lectures I have endeavoured to indicate to you the extent of the subject-matter of the inquiry upon which we are engaged; and now, having thus acquired some conception of the Past and Present phenomena of Organic Nature, I must now turn to that which constitutes the great problem...

In complying with the wish of the publishers of Professor Haeckel's[v] reply to Professor Virchow, that I should furnish a prefatory note expressing my own opinion in respect of the subject-matter of the controversy, Gay's homely lines, prophetic of the fate of those “who in quarrels interpose, ”...

On a eu raison de dire que depuis le commencement du monde jusqu’au jour présent, toutes les pensées des hommes se relient entre elles et forment une grande chaîne ; mais une autre métaphore indiquera mieux peut-être la filiation intellectuelle du genre humain. Les pensées des hommes me semblent...

To the present generation, that is to say, the people a few years on the hither and thither side of thirty, the name of Charles Darwin stands alongside of those of Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday; and, like them, calls up the grand ideal of a searcher after truth and interpreter of Nature. They think...

Evolution and Ethics tackle a subject that is still a focal point of ethical debates today: the relation of science as a whole and explicitly evolutionary ideas to ethics and morality. It demonstrates Huxley's talent for explaining the importance of science to a lay audience. Informative!