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    The Present Condition of Organic Nature
    The Present Condition of Organic Nature
    The Present Condition of Organic Nature
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    The Present Condition of Organic Nature

    By Thomas Henry Huxley

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Present Condition of Organic Nature - Thomas Henry Huxley

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Present Condition of Organic Nature, by

      Thomas H. Huxley

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      Title: The Present Condition of Organic Nature

             Lecture I. (of VI.), Lectures To Working Men, at the Museum

                    of Practical Geology, 1863, On Darwin's work: "Origin of

                    Species".

      Author: Thomas H. Huxley

      Release Date: January 4, 2009 [EBook #2921]

      Last Updated: January 22, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONDITION OF ORGANIC NATURE ***

      Produced by Amy E. Zelmer, and David Widger

      THE PRESENT CONDITION

      OF ORGANIC NATURE

      Lecture I. (of VI.), Lectures To Working Men, at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, On Darwin's work: Origin of Species.

      By Thomas H. Huxley

      Contents

      List of Illustrations

      EDITOR'S NOTE

      Of the great thinkers of the nineteenth century, Thomas Henry Huxley, son of an Ealing schoolmaster, was undoubtedly the most noteworthy. His researches in biology, his contributions to scientific controversy, his pungent criticisms of conventional beliefs and thoughts have probably had greater influence than the work of any other English scientist. And yet he was a self-made intellectualist. In spite of the fact that his father was a schoolmaster he passed through no regular course of education. I had, he said, two years of a pandemonium of a school (between eight and ten) and after that neither help nor sympathy in any intellectual direction till I reached manhood. When he was twelve a craving for reading found satisfaction in Hutton's Geology, and when fifteen in Hamilton's Logic.

      At seventeen Huxley entered as a student at Charing Cross Hospital, and three years later he was M.B. and the possessor of the gold medal for anatomy and physiology. An appointment as surgeon in the navy proved to be the entry to Huxley's great scientific career, for he was gazetted to the Rattlesnake, commissioned for surveying work in Torres Straits. He was attracted by the teeming surface life of tropical seas and his study of it was the commencement of that revolution in scientific knowledge ultimately brought about by his researches.

      Thomas Henry Huxley was born at Ealing on May 4, 1825, and died at Eastbourne June 29, 1895.

      LECTURES AND ESSAYS BY T.H. HUXLEY ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CAUSES OF THE PHENOMENA OF ORGANIC NATURE

      NOTICE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

      The Publisher of these interesting Lectures, having made an arrangement for their publication with Mr. J. A. Mays, the Reporter, begs to append the following note from Professor Huxley:—

      "Mr. J. Aldous Mays, who is

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