More from Thomas Henry Huxley

  1. 'A man who was always taking two irons out of the fire and putting three in'
  2. 'The illustrious comparative anatomist, Huxley, Darwin's great general in the battles that had to be fought, but not a naturalist, far less…
  3. 'Archbishop Huxley and Professor Manning'
  4. 'From [1854] until 1885 Huxley's labours extended over the widest field of biology and philosophy ever covered by any naturalist with the s…
  5. 'Darwin's bulldog was patently a man of almost puritanical uprightness'
  6. 'I believed that he was the greatest man I was ever likely to meet, and I believe that all the more firmly today'
  7. '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…
  8. 'Huxleyism: the theory of the anthropoid descent of man and its inevitable consequences.'

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