AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND SELECTED ESSAYS
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Note: The notes at the end of the book were originally referenced by page number. I have instead inserted numbers within the text in the format [xx] and cross-referenced these to the appropriate notes.—D.L.
Edited, with introduction and notes by Ada L. F. Snell Associate
Professor Of English Mount Holyoke College
Riverside College Classics Copyright 1909
CONTENTS
[ II — SUBJECT-MATTER, STRUCTURE, AND STYLE ]
[ III — SUGGESTED STUDIES IN SUBJECT-MATTER, STRUCTURE, AND STYLE ]
[ THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY — AUTOBIOGRAPHY [1] ]
[ ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE [19] ]
[ A LIBERAL EDUCATION [49] ]
[ ON A PIECE OF CHALK [57] ]
[ THE PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS OF EDUCATION [76] ]
[ THE METHOD OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION [86] ]
[ ON THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE [92] ]
[ ON CORAL AND CORAL REEFS [110] ]
[ NOTES ][ ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE (1866) ]
[ A LIBERAL EDUCATION (1868) ]
[ THE PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS OF EDUCATION (1882) ]
[ THE METHOD OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION (1863) ]
[ ON THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE (1868) ]