Quote #73

'Pope Huxley' title of an article by R.H. Hutton who complains that whilst THH advocates agnosticism for everyone else, he's apt to be a mite too certain himself!

More from Thomas Henry Huxley

  1. 'Huxley gave the death-blow not only to Owen's theory of the skull but also to Owen's hitherto unchallenged prestige'
  2. 'If he [THH] has a fault it is... that like Caesar, he is ambitious... [it might be said that] cutting up apes is his forte, cutting up men…
  3. 'I think his tone is much too vehement'
  4. 'Darwin's bulldog was patently a man of almost puritanical uprightness'
  5. 'My good and kind agent for the propagation of the Gospel; i.e. the Devil's gospel'.
  6. 'Archbishop Huxley and Professor Manning'
  7. 'Then the Bishop rose, and in a light scoffing tone, florid and he assured us there was nothing in the idea of evolution; rock-pigeons were…
  8. 'A man who was always taking two irons out of the fire and putting three in'

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