More from Thomas Henry Huxley

  1. 'Darwin's bulldog was patently a man of almost puritanical uprightness'
  2. 'A man who was always taking two irons out of the fire and putting three in'
  3. '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…
  4. 'It was worth being born to have known Huxley.'
  5. '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 mi…
  6. 'The illustrious comparative anatomist, Huxley, Darwin's great general in the battles that had to be fought, but not a naturalist, far less…
  7. 'Huxley gave the death-blow not only to Owen's theory of the skull but also to Owen's hitherto unchallenged prestige'
  8. 'From [1854] until 1885 Huxley's labours extended over the widest field of biology and philosophy ever covered by any naturalist with the s…

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