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Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest
By Adrian Desmond
866 pages
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- Perseus Books
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- Cambridge, MA
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- 1999
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Synopsis
"This racy biography of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) is a portrait of the modern age being born. Huxley was a superb scientist and Adrian Desmond writes about science as lucidly as anyone can, but Huxley was also the great apostle of Darwinism, and Desmond vividly sketches his ferocious assaults on the structures of Victorian society -- religion, class, education -- as he molded Darwin's scientific revolution into a social engine to overthrow the old order. The man and the historical transformation ...
"This racy biography of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) is a portrait of the modern age being born. Huxley was a superb scientist and Adrian Desmond writes about science as lucidly as anyone can, but Huxley was also the great apostle of Darwinism, and Desmond vividly sketches his ferocious assaults on the structures of Victorian society -- religion, class, education -- as he molded Darwin's scientific revolution into a social engine to overthrow the old order. The man and the historical transformation are one in this intensely dramatic, amusing account". -- New York Times
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Table of contents
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- Huxley *
- Also by Adrian Desmond *
- Title Page *
- Contents v
- Illustrations vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- The Apostle Paul of the New Teaching xiii
- Part One - The Devil's Disciple *
- 1825-1846 Dreaming My Own Dreams *
- 1 - Philosophy Can Bake No Bread 3
- 2 - Son of the Scalpel 18
- 3 - The Surgeon's Mate 36
- 1846-1850 the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea *
- 4 - Men-Of-War 53
- 5 - An Ark of Promise 66
- 6 - The Eighth Circle of Hell 86
- Huxley *
- Also by Adrian Desmond *
- Title Page *
- Contents v
- Illustrations vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- The Apostle Paul of the New Teaching xiii
- Part One - The Devil's Disciple *
- 1825-1846 Dreaming My Own Dreams *
- 1 - Philosophy Can Bake No Bread 3
- 2 - Son of the Scalpel 18
- 3 - The Surgeon's Mate 36
- 1846-1850 the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea *
- 4 - Men-Of-War 53
- 5 - An Ark of Promise 66
- 6 - The Eighth Circle of Hell 86
- 7 - Sepulchral Painted Savages 111
- 8 - Homesick Heroes 129
- 1850-1858 Lost in the Wilderness *
- 9 - The Scientific Sadducee 149
- 10 - The Season of Despair 172
- 11 - The Jihad Begins 195
- 12 - The Nature of the Beast 216
- 13 - Empires of the Deep Past 231
- 1858-1865 the New Luther *
- 14 - The Eve of a New Reformation 251
- 15 - Buttered Angels & Bellowing Apes 266
- 16 - Reslaying the Slain 292
- 17 - Man's Place 312
- 1865-1870 the Scientific Swell *
- 18 - Birds, Dinosaurs & Booming Guns 339
- 19 - Eyeing the Prize 361
- Part Two - Evolution's High Priest *
- 1870-1884 Marketing the 'New Nature' *
- 20 - The Gun in the Liberal Armoury 385
- 21 - From the City of the Dead to the City of Science 411
- 22 - Automatons 433
- 23 - The American Dream 463
- 24 - A Touch of the Whip 483
- 25 - A Person of Respectability 495
- 26 - The Scientific Woolsack 507
- 1885-1895 the Old Lion *
- 27 - Polishing off the G.O.M 537
- 28 - Christ Was No Christian 562
- 29 - Combating the Cosmos 583
- 30 - Fighting Unto Death 600
- Afterword *
- Abbreviations 645
- Notes 648
- Bibliography 751
- Index 783