Man's Place in Nature, and Other Essays - Thomas Henry Huxley

London: J. M. DENT & CO.

First Edition, February 1906
Reprinted July 1906

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I.	On the Natural History of the Man-Like Apes	[1]
II.	On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals	[52]
III.	On Some Fossil Remains of Man	[111]
IV.	The Present Condition of Organic Nature	[151]
V.	The Past Condition of Organic Nature	[168]
VI.	The Method by which the Causes of the Present and Past Conditions of Organic
	Nature are to be Discovered.—The Origination of Living Beings	[186]
VII.	The Perpetuation of Living Beings, Hereditary Transmission and Variation	[208]
VIII.	The Conditions of Existence as Affecting the Perpetuation of Living Beings	[225]
IX.	A Critical Examination of the Position of Mr. Darwin’s Work, “On the
	Origin of Species,” in Relation to the Complete Theory of the Causes of the
	Phenomena of Organic Nature	[245]
X.	On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences	[264]
	(Lecture delivered at St. Martin’s Hall, July 22, 1854).
XI.	On the Persistent Types of Animal Life	[283]
	(Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution, June 3, 1859.)
XII.	Time and Life	[287]
	(Macmillan’s Magazine, December 1859.)
XIII.	Darwin on the Origin of Species	[299]
	(Westminster Review, April 1860.)
XIV.	The Darwinian Hypothesis	[337]
	(Times, December 26, 1859.)
XV.	A Lobster; or, The Study of Zoology	[352]
	(Lecture delivered at South Kensington Museum, May 14, 1860).

INTRODUCTION

Forty years ago the position of scientific studies was not so firmly established as it is to-day, and a conflict was necessary to secure their general recognition. The forces of obscurantism and of free and easy dogmatism were arrayed against them; and, just as in former centuries astronomy, and in more recent times geology, so in our own lifetime biology, has had to offer a harsh and fighting front, lest its progress be impeded by the hostility born of preconceived opinions, and by the bigotry of self-appointed guardians of conservative views.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION