Science and Culture, and Other Essays

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Science and Culture, and Other Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley gathers addresses, lectures and essays which the preface says had appeared at intervals during the preceding seven years. The preface explains republication by referring to the favorable reception of three earlier collections of a similar nature and their continuing demand. The discussion of education describes representatives of the Humanists in the nineteenth century as holding classical education to be the sole avenue to culture.

The discussion of contemporary knowledge identifies the vast and constantly increasing part played by natural knowledge as a distinctive characteristic of its times. The discussion of the heart observes that excluding one of the four cavities recognized by moderns leaves three, agreeing with what Aristotle says.

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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.