The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science

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Huxley, the Victorian biologist, sorts accounts of past events into three kinds: those exactly true, those part true and part false, and those in which invention outweighs fact. He takes the beheading of Charles the First, Defoe's Plague year and Shakespeare's Hamlet as examples, and stresses that a work's literary worth is no measure of its value as history. This is the sixth essay from his Science and Hebrew Tradition.

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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.

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Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
Reading time: About 40 minutes
Pages: 21
Language: English
Genre: Essays
Formats: PDF, EPUB, Read online