Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest

Table of contents

• 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

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