Colloquially known as “Darwin’s bulldog” due to his vigorous support of evolutionary theories, Thomas Henry Huxley was an important biologist, educator and advocate of agnosticism, for which he famously coined the term. Huxley’s extraordinary career, in which he made groundbreaking strides in the study of naturalism, delivered public lectures and composed learned works on diverse subjects helped elevate the place of science in modern society. This eBook presents Huxley’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Huxley’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the texts
* All the major works, with individual contents tables
* Rare essays and addresses appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* The complete nine volumes of the celebrated ‘Collected Essays’
* Includes Huxley’s original footnotes, fully hyperlinked
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Features six biographies, including his son’s seminal study – discover Huxley’s incredible life and letters
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Books
Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature (1863)
The Cerebral Structure of Man and Apes (1863)
Critiques and Addresses (1873)
American Addresses (1877)
Hume (1878)
The Crayfish (1879)
Introductory Science Primer (1880)
Essays upon Some Controverted Questions (1892)
Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays (1893)
Aphorisms and Reflections (1907)
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews (1910)
Miscellaneous Essays and Addresses
The Collected Essays
I. Method and Results
II. Darwiniana
III. Science and Education
IV. Science and Hebrew Tradition
V. Science and Christian Tradition
VI. Hume, with Helps to the Study of Berkeley
VII. Man’s Place in Nature
VIII. Discourses, Biological and Geological
IX. Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays
The Biographies
Thomas Henry Huxley (1895) by Michael Foster
Thomas Henry Huxley (1898) by Leslie Stephen
Thomas Henry Huxley (1900) by Sir P. Chalmers Mitchell
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (1900) by Leonard Huxley
Huxley’s Life and Work (1901) by John Lubbock
Thomas Henry Huxley (1911) by William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
