The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1 |
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... Huxley was as usual active in guiding and stimulating the growing tendency to tolerate or accept the views set forth ... Huxley's lectures . 2 [ 1863 . SPREAD OF EVOLUTION .
... Huxley was as usual active in guiding and stimulating the growing tendency to tolerate or accept the views set forth ... Huxley's lectures . 2 [ 1863 . SPREAD OF EVOLUTION .
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... Huxley's lectures . I have been very much struck with them , especially with the ' Philosophy of Induction . ' I have quarrelled with him for overdoing sterility and ignoring cases from Gärtner and Kölreuter about sterile varieties ...
... Huxley's lectures . I have been very much struck with them , especially with the ' Philosophy of Induction . ' I have quarrelled with him for overdoing sterility and ignoring cases from Gärtner and Kölreuter about sterile varieties ...
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... Huxley , yours affectionately , CH . DARWIN . [ In another letter ( Jan. 1865 ) he returns to the above suggestion , though he was in general strongly opposed to men of science giving up to the writing of text - books , or to teaching ...
... Huxley , yours affectionately , CH . DARWIN . [ In another letter ( Jan. 1865 ) he returns to the above suggestion , though he was in general strongly opposed to men of science giving up to the writing of text - books , or to teaching ...
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... Huxley ( Medical Times , Oct. 25 , 1862 , quoted in ' Man's Place in Nature , ' p . 117 ) spoke of the " two years during which this preposterous con- troversy has dragged its weary length . " And this no doubt ex- pressed a very ...
... Huxley ( Medical Times , Oct. 25 , 1862 , quoted in ' Man's Place in Nature , ' p . 117 ) spoke of the " two years during which this preposterous con- troversy has dragged its weary length . " And this no doubt ex- pressed a very ...
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... Huxley , or more so ) that it is too severe ; it struck me as given with judicial force . It might perhaps be said with truth that he had no business to judge on a subject on which he knows nothing ; but compilers must do this to a ...
... Huxley , or more so ) that it is too severe ; it struck me as given with judicial force . It might perhaps be said with truth that he had no business to judge on a subject on which he knows nothing ; but compilers must do this to a ...
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