Huxley: The Devil's DiscipleT.H. Huxley led a fascinating and outgoing life. He did battle with God and Gladstone, sat on royal commissions and campaigned for elementary education. He carried Darwin's fight to the public. This book uses the life of Huxley to illustrate the second half of the 19th century. |
Contents
Philosophy Can Bake No Bread | 3 |
Son of the Scalpel | 18 |
The Surgeons Mate | 36 |
MenofWar | 53 |
An Ark of Promise | 66 |
The Eighth Circle of Hell | 86 |
Sepulchral Painted Savages III | 111 |
Homesick Heroes | 129 |
Empires of the Deep Past | 231 |
The Eve of a New Reformation | 251 |
Buttered Angels Bellowing Apes | 266 |
Reslaying the Slain | 292 |
Mans Place | 312 |
Birds Dinosaurs Booming Guns | 339 |
Eyeing the Prize | 361 |
Abbreviations | 381 |
The Scientific Sadducee | 149 |
ΙΟ The Season of Despair | 172 |
The Jihad Begins | 195 |
The Nature of the Beast | 216 |
Bibliography | 432 |
Index | 453 |
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