Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews - Thomas Henry Huxley

Fourthly, I wish to refer all who are interested in the topics discussed in my address on "Geological Reform," to the reply with which Sir William Thomson has honoured me.

And, lastly, let me say that I reprint the review of "The Origin of Species" simply because it has been cited as mine by a late President of the Geological Society. If you find its phraseology, in some places, to be more vigorous than seems needful, recollect that it was written in the heat of our first battles over the Novum Organon of biology; that we were all ten years younger in those days; and last, but not least, that it was not published until it had been submitted to the revision of a friend for whose judgment I had then, as I have now, the greatest respect.

Ever, my dear Tyndall,
Yours very faithfully,
T.H. HUXLEY
London, June 1870.

CONTENTS.

[I.]
- On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge.
  (A Lay Sermon delivered in St. Martin's Hall, on the evening of Sunday, the 7th of January, 1866, and subsequently published in the Fortnightly Review)
[II.]
- Emancipation—Black and White.
  (The Reader, May 20th, 1865)
[III.]
- A Liberal Education: and Where to Find It.
  (An Address to the South London Working Men's College, delivered on the 4th of January, 1868, and subsequently published in Macmillan's Magazine)
[IV.]
- Scientific Education: Notes of an After-Dinner Speech.
  (Delivered before the Liverpool Philomathic Society in April 1869, and subsequently published in Macmillan's Magazine)
[V.]
- On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences.
  (An Address delivered at St. Martin's Hall, on the 22d July, 1854, and published as a pamphlet in that year)
[VI.]
- On the Study of Zoology.
  (A Lecture delivered at the South Kensington Museum, in 1861, and subsequently published by the Department of Science and Art)
[VII.]
- On the Physical Basis of Life.
  (A Lay Sermon delivered in Edinburgh, on Sunday, the 8th of November, 1868, at the request of the late Rev. James Cranbrook; subsequently published in the Fortnightly Review)
[VIII.]
- The Scientific Aspects of Positivism.
  (A Reply to Mr. Congreve's Attack upon the preceding Paper. Published in the Fortnightly Review. 1869)
[IX.]
- On a Piece of Chalk.
  (A Lecture delivered to the Working Men of Norwich, during the Meeting of the British Association, in 1868. Subsequently published in Macmillan's Magazine)
[X.]
- Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life.
  (The Anniversary Address to the Geological Society for 1862)
[XI.]
- Geological Reform.
  (The Anniversary Address to the Geological Society for 1869)
[XII.]
- The Origin of Species.
  (The Westminster Review, April 1860)
[XIII.]
- Criticisms on "The Origin of Species."
  (The Natural History Review, 1864)
[XIV.]
- On Descartes' "Discourse Touching the Method of Using One's Reason Rightly and of Seeking Scientific Truth."
  (An Address to the Cambridge Young Men's Christian Society, delivered on the 24th of March, 1870, and subsequently published in Macmillan's Magazine)

CONTENTS.

LAY SERMONS, ADDRESSES, AND REVIEWS.

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