Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley

by Thomas Henry Huxley

• Abiogenesis, defined, [CCXVIII], [CCXX], [CCXXI]
• Able men, besetting sin of, [CCCLXXII]
• Abstractions, [CCCXLIII]
• Accuracy, [CXXIII]
• Agnosticism defined, [CXLII];
  cf. [CL]
• —— origin of the term, [CCLVI]
• Aim of life, [CXXI], [CCCXXXV]
• Alcohol and brain work, [CCCLV]
• Analogies, scope of, [CLIII]
• Analogy, Butler's, [CCCXI], [CCCXXX]
• Animals, mind in, [CLIII]
• —— immortality, [CCXCIX]
• Anniversaries, [CCCXXXVIII]
• Ant, white, scientific method compared to, [CCCLXXX]
• Anthropomorphism, [CCCX]
• Antiquity of man, [CLXXXII]
• Architecture, prehistoric, [CLXXXIII]
• Armaments, cause of modern, [CCCLXXIX]
• Arrogance, a check to, [CLXXV]
• Art: the teaching of drawing, [XCIV]
• —— and Christianity, [CXLVI]
• Aryan question, [CLXXXI]
• Ascent of man, [LI], [CLXXIX]
• Aspiration and immortality, [CLVIII]
• —— and fact, [CCC]
• Atheism, [CCCXI]
• Atlantic Ocean, comparison with physiology, [CIV]
• —— bed of, [CLXXII]
• Authority, [III], [XIII], [XIV], [LXIV], [LXVI], [LXVII], [CL]
• —— a worthless, [CLXXIV];
  its struggle with freethought, [CCCXX], [CCCLXXII] (cf. Scepticism)
• Automata and the soul, [XXII]
• Automatic virtue, [XXII]
• Average opinion, government by, [CCCXLV]

• Backwoodsman's work in science is acceptable, [CCCLXIV]
• Baur, merits of as a critic, [CCCLIV]
• Beauty, the sense of, [CCLIV]
• Becky Sharp, [LXXIV]
• Bees, comparison with, [CV]
• Being, impermanence of, [CCXL]
• —— the ultimate, [CCLV]
• Belief, the bases of, [LXX]
• —— and morality, [CLXI], [CXLV], [CCXCVII]
• —— and rational grounds for, [CXXXIX];
  cf. [CCCLVI]
• —— consequences of right and wrong, [CCCXXIX]
• Benevolence in nature, [CCLXIX], [CCCXXX]
• Best men, the, [CXLIII]
• Biblical criticism, the key to, [CCCLIV]
• Biogenesis, defined, [CCXVIII], [CCXX], [CCXXI]
• Bishops and moral courage, [CCCLXXXIII]
• Body, compared to an Army, [CXVI]
• —— —— to a loaded gun, [CCLIX]
• Book-learning, [CXIII], [CCXVII]
• —— sought by the ancient University, [CCCLXXI]
• Books, [CII]
• —— good, and fools, [CCCXVI]
• Brahma and the rule of life, [CCXLV]
• Brain work and stimulants, [CCCLV]
• Brutes, mental analogies with, [CLIII]
• Butler's Analogy, [CCCXI], [CCCXXX]

• Cabanis, [CCCLXI]
• Cant and shams, [CCCLX]
• Capacity and incapacity, [XXXI]
• Cape Horn of life, the, [CCXCIII]
• Capital, vital, [CCLIX], [CCLXII]
• —— lately wages, [CCLXVII]
• —— supposed antagonism to labour, [CCLXVIII]
• Capitalist nature, [CCVI]
• Carlyle, the lesson of, [CCCLX]
• Catholicism minus Christianity, [XI]
• Causation, its universality, [CLVI]
• Causes, natural, vast effects of, [CXCVII]
• —— secondary, [CLXXXVII]
• Certainty lies in thought, [XVIII], [XIX], [CLII]
• —— absolute, the only, [CCCLVIII];
  not given by induction, [CCCLVIII]
• —— limits of, [CLXVII]
• Chalk, the significance of, [CLXXXIX]
• —— antiquity of, [CXCVI]
• —— deep sea origin of, [CXCIV]
• —— parentage of, [CXC]
• —— present day formation of, [CXCI]
• —— rate of formation, [CXCV]
• —— the lesson of, [CXCVIII]
• Chance, [CLVI]
• Character and heredity, [CCXLIV]
• Chessplayer, the hidden, [LXXXIII];
  cf. Game
• Child, death of a, [CCCXLVI];
  cf. [CCCLXIV]
• Children, influence of, [CCCXVII], [CCCLI]
• Christianity and Creeds, [CXLI], [CXLIV]
• —— and the intellectual world, [CXLVI]
• —— its success alleged as proof of the story of Jesus, [CCCLIII]
• —— primitive and later, [CCCLIII]
• Church, the primitive and later, [CCCLIII]
• Cinderella, the role of science, [CCLVIII]
• Civilisation and suffering, [CCXLII], [CCCLVII]
• Class-feeling, high and low, [LXXXII]
• Classical education, [CCXIV]
• Clearness of thought, [XXV]
• Clericalism and science, [LVIII]
• Cleverness, [CXV]
• —— is of small intrinsic value, [CCCLXXIII]
• Coal and club-mosses, [CCII]
• —— less important than education, [CCCXIV]
• —— the preservation of, [CCIV], [CCVI]
• Cocksureness, [CLXVII]
• Comet, a kindly, [CCCLVII]
• Commerce and science, [CLXXIII]
• Common facts and great principles, [CXXIV]
• Common sense and science, [LXXVI];
  and truth, [CXII]
• Comte, [XI], [CXLIV]
• Conduct, laws of, how discoverable, [CCCLXVIII]
• Conscience and sympathy, [CCXXXIII]
• Consequences, logical, [XXVIII]
• Conservation of energy and immortality, [CCCLXI]
• Cosmic process and ethical process, [CCLI]
• Creation and evolution, [CCXXIX]
• Creeds, [LXXI]
• —— disbelief in as a sin, [CXLI], [CXLV]
• Crime and heredity, [CCXXXVI]
• Crowded street, life is like a, [CCCXL]
• Culture and English literature, [XCV]
• Cultured idleness, [CV]
• Cuvier and common sense, [CCXCI]
• Cyclical evolution, [CCXXXIX]

• Dante, [LXXX]
• Darwin, his work and methods, [CCCLXXXII]
• Death of a child, [CCCXLVI];
  cf. [CCCLXIV]
• Deep sea soundings, [CXCII]
• —— —— glacial survivors in, [CXCIX]
• Demagogues caused Socrates' death, [CXLVIII]
• Demonstration, the essence of modern teaching, [CCIX]
• Descartes, [XV], [XVII]
• —— his chief service, [CLII], [CLIV]
• Determinants of mental and moral activities, [CXXXII]
• Development, [CLXXII]
• Disciples not sought for, [CCCLXIII]
• —— the curse of science, [CCCLXXII]
• Dismal science, the, [CCCLXXXI]
• Do as you would be done by, [CCXXXV]
• Dogmatism, the nemesis of, [CCLVIII]
• Doubt (cf. scepticism), [XVII];
  cf. Unbelief and Creeds
• Drawing, the teaching of, [XCIV]
• —— as a discipline, [CXXII]
• Duty, [XIII], [XVI]
• —— and happiness, [CLX], [CLXI]
• —— a man's first, [CCCLXXIV]

• Economical Problem, in physiological terms, [CCLIX]
• Economy, true, [CCCXLIX]
• Education, mechanical basis of, [XXI]
• —— a liberal, [LXXXIX]
• —— ancient and modern, [CCXV] (cf. [CCXII])
• —— and conflict of studies, [XCIII]
• —— and examinations, [CVI]
• —— and fine buildings, [L]
• —— by nature, [LXXXV], [LXXXVI];
  compared with artificial education, [LXXXVIII]
• —— classical, the same for ancient Rome and modern England, [CCXIV]
• —— defined, [LXXXIV]
• —— effects of, [XXXVIII]
• —— English, and culture, [XCV]
• —— English untaught, [XCVI]
• —— foreign languages in, [XCVII]
• —— Latin and German in, [XCVIII]
• —— more important than coal, [CCCXIII]
• —— of the young, knowledge requisite for, [CXXVI]
• —— technical, [CCCXXXI]
• —— the, of practical work, [CCCLXXIV]
• —— the purpose of primary, [CCXIII]
• Eginhard, [CXXXIX]
• Emotional chameleon (man), [CCXXXIII]
• Empusa muscæ, [CCXXI]
• End of life, the great, [CXXI], [CCCXXXV]
• English literature and culture, [XCV]
• —— untaught, [XCVI]
• Equality, [XL], [XLII]
• Error (cf. Mistakes), [CXXXVI]
• —— advantage of consistent, [XCI]
• —— acknowledgment of, [CXXXVII]
• —— and faith, [CXXXVIII]
• —— old, the explosion of, [CCCL]
• —— religious, [CXLI], [CXLV]
• Eternal order, the, [CCXXXI]
• Ethical ideals necessary, [CXIX]
• Ethical process, the, [CCXXXIV]
• —— —— and cosmic process, [CCLI]
• —— —— and the survival of the fittest, [CCL]
• Ethics, modern, and old Israel, [CXLVII]
• Ethnology, methods and results of, [CLXXX]
• Eubiotics, [CCCLXXXI]
• Evidence, judgment, and action, [CCCLII]
• Evil, the existence of, [CCXLVI]
• —— the insistence of, [CCXLVII]
• Evolution and man, [CLXXVI]
• —— and the millennium, [CCLII]
• —— cyclical, [CCXXXIX]
• —— described, [CCXXIX]
• —— formulated by Kant, [CCXXV]
• —— in history, [CCCXLIV]
• —— slowness of, [CCV]
• —— variation and selection are the bases of, [CCXXX]
• Examinations, [CVI]
• Existence and thought, [XVIII], [XIX]
• Expectation and verification, [CCCLVIII]

• Fact and hypothesis, [IX], [CCXIX]
• —— and aspiration, [CCC]
• —— and theory, [CCLXXXVI]
• Faith, blind, effects of, [CXXXVIII], [CXXXIX]
• —— moral aspect of, [CXLI], [CXLV]
• —— which is born of knowledge, [CCXXXI]
• Fall, doctrine of the, baseless, [CCCLXII]
• Fallacies, the destruction of, [LXXIII]
• —— their tenacity of life, [CCCXXXVII]
• Fame, posthumous, [CCCXXXIII];
  cf. [CCCLXIII]
• Feeling and morality, [CLXIII], [CLXIV]
• Ferments, the first knowledge of, [CCI]
• Florida paint-root, [CLXXXVIII]
• Fly and silkworm disease, [CCXXI]
• Fools and common-sense, [CCCXXXIX]
• Force, [CCCXLIII]
• Foreign languages, value of, [XCVII]
• Forests, records of ancient, [CCIII]
• Forms, the permanence of, [CCXXVIII]
• Fox, George, [CXXXIX]
• Frankness, reception of honest, [CCXCV]
• Fraud, unconscious, [CXXXVIII]
• Freedom, [XXIII]
• —— dangers of, [CVII]
• —— its struggle with tradition, [CCCXX]
• —— of the will, [CCLVII]
• —— of thought, [CXXX]
• —— to go wrong in, [CCCXV]
• Fugue, Nature's great, [CCLXXXVIII]
• Function of the brain, thought as a, [CCCLXI]
• Future of the world, [CIX]
• —— retribution, [CCCII], [CCCIII], [CCCIV], [CCCV]
• —— —— dangers of the doctrine, [CCCVI], [CCCVII]

• Galatians, Epistle to, the key to Christianity, [CCCLIV]
• Game, life compared to a, [LXXXIII];
  cf. [CCCXII]
• Genius, [XXXIV], [CLIV], [CLV]
• —— a faculty for "possession," [CXXXIV]
• —— as motherwit, [V]
• Gentleman, qualities of a, [XXXV]
• Geological theories, [CCXXIII];
  reconciliation of, [CCXXV]
• —— fact and theory, [CCXXIV]
• —— time, [CLXXXVIII]
• Glacial survivors in the deep sea, [CLXXVII]
• God and no God, [XXX]
• —— the love of, [CLXIII]
• Goethe and science, [CCLXXXIX]
• —— defects of his scientific qualities, [CCXC]
• Golden rule, the, [CCXXXV]
• Good of mankind, [XXXVII]
• Graduates in all the faculties of human relationships have thoughts beyond negative criticism, [CCCLXIV]
• Greatness, [XV]
• —— national, [CX]
• Guide to life, [XX]

• Habit, an invaluable, [CCCLXXIV]
• Haman and Modecai, [CCXXXIII]
• Happiness and moral duty, [CLX]
• —— is in excess of pain, [CCCIII]
• —— we are never certain of conferring it on others, [CCCLXXXIV]
• Henslow, character of, [CCCIX]
• Heredity and crime, [CCXXXVI]
• —— and character, [CCXLIV]
• Heresies (cf. Authority), [LXVII]
• Hesitation, no good done by, [CCCXXI]
• Historical truth a matter of science, [CCCLII]
• History and physiology, [LXXVIII]
• —— possible new teaching of, [CCCXLIV]
• Human nature, no recent change in, [CLXX]
• Humanity, religion of, [CXLIV]
• Hume, [CLVIII]
• Hutton, [CCXXIII]
• Hypothesis and fact, [IX], [CCXIX]

• Ideal, necessity of ethical, [CXIX]
• Idealism and materialism, [CLXVIII]
• Ideas, men live by, [CIX], [CXI]
• —— innate, [CLIV]
• —— necessary, [CLVII]
• —— struggle for existence among, [LXVIII]
• Idleness, cultured, in society, [CV]
• Idolatry, intellectual, [CCCXLIII]
• Ignorance, how treated by nature, [LXXXVII]
• Imagination, scientific, CXXXI, [CLXXXI]
• —— unscientific, [CXLIX]
• Immortality, aspirations after, [CLVIII]
• —— and conservation of energy, [CCCLXI]
• —— and grief, [CCCVIII]
• —— and probability, [CCXCVII]
• —— animal, [CCXCIX]
• —— disregarded by the highest ancient moral aspiration, [CCCLXVI]
• Impermanence of being, [CCXL]
• Incapacity, [XXXI], [LXXXVII]
• Indian Empire, a curse, [CCCXXXIV]
• —— how to hold it, ib.
• Individual and society, [XLVIII], [LII]
• —— his debt to society, [CCLXXXIII]
• —— not infallible, [CCLXXXII]
• —— worth, the safeguard of society, [CCCXXVII]
• Individualism, [XLIX], [L]
• —— limits of, [CCLXXXI]
• Induction, does not confer absolute certainty, [CCCLVIII]
• Industrialism and militarism, [CCCLXXIX]
• Inert matter, [CCCLXIII]
• Innate ideas, [CLIV], [CLV]
• Innocent pleasure of advancing years, [CCCXXXIX]
• Instinct, [CLIV], [CLV]
• Intellectual instruction, merely, [CXXVIII];
  less needful than moral, [CCCXIX]
• —— matters, reason the guide in, [CXLII]
• —— uncertainty, [CXL]
• —— world and Christianity, [CXLVI]
• Intoxication, mental, [CXXXIII]
• Irony of history in science, [CCXCII]
• Israel and modern ethics, [CXLVII]
• Italy, intellectual position of, [CCXVIII]

• Jesus, the story of;
  its truth or falsehood as based on the success of Christianity, [CCCLIII]
• Jews, persecution of, in Eastern Europe, compared to that of early Christians, [CCCLIII]
• Judaism, old and modern ethics of, [CXLVII]
• Julian, the Emperor, [CXLIV]
• Justice satisfied, [CLIX]
• —— and desert, [CCXLIII]
• —— of nature, [CCCII], [CCCIV], [CCCV]