Science and Culture, and Other Essays

SCIENCE AND CULTURE
AND
OTHER ESSAYS
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, LL.D., F.R.S.
London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1888
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First Edition printed 1881 Reprinted 1882, 1888.
The Addresses, Lectures, and Essays gathered together in this volume have appeared at intervals during the past seven years, and I can give no better reason for republishing them in their present form, than the fact that three earlier collections of a similar nature have been received with favour, and, indeed, have not yet ceased to be in request.
I beg leave to offer my best thanks to the Editors and Publishers of the various publications in which these pieces have appeared, for their kindly accorded permission to reprint them.
London. October 1881.

No man, however, who is endowed with a fair share of common sense, and not more than a fair share of vanity, will identify either contemporary or posthumous fame with the highest good; and Priestley’s life leaves no doubt that he, at any rate, set a much higher value upon the advancement of knowledge, and the promotion of that freedom of thought which is at once the cause and the consequence of intellectual progress.