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Lay sermons, addresses, and reviews / by Thomas Henry Huxley. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Lay sermons, addresses, and reviews / by Thomas Henry Huxley.
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895.
- Date:
- 1870
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Publication/Creation
London : Macmillan, 1870 (London : R. Clay.)
Physical description
378 pages ; 22 cm
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Notes
Reprinted from various sources
This edition was reprinted in 1871, 1872, 1874, 1877, 1880, 1883, and 1887. The 1871 reprint is also known as the 3rd ed
Copy 3 Note: 1887 reprint
Contents
On the advisableness of improving natural knowledge.--Emancipation : black and white.--A liberal education.--Scientific education.--On the educational value of the natural history sciences.--On the study of zoology.--On the physical basis of life.--The scientific aspects of positivism.--On a piece of chalk.--Geological contemporaneity and persistent types of life.--Geological reform.--The origin of species.--Criticisms on "The origin of species".--On Descartes' "Discourse touching the method of using one's reason rightly and of seeking scientific truth".
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