Hume

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Hume is a book by Thomas Henry Huxley, headed Hume by Professor Huxley. The contents list names, among others, chapters called Early Life: Literary and Political Writings, The Origin of the Impressions and Theism: Evolution of Theology.

The text quotes a reviewer who says the work bears incontestable marks of a great capacity, of a soaring genius, but young, and not yet thoroughly practised. The text says that the parallel here drawn between the avoidance of a fire by a man and the incubatory instinct of a bird is inexact. The text says that if no man desired that which could damage his fellow-man, justice would have no part to play in the universe.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley was a Victorian biologist, comparative anatomist, educator, and prominent defender of evolutionary science. Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature, published in 1863, brought together essays comparing humans with other primates and considering fossil evidence.