Delphi Collected Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

by Thomas Henry Huxley, Delphi Classics (Editor)

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



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

7969 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 16, 2025

About the author

Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS HonFRSE FLS was an English biologist and anthropologist specialising in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

In 1825, Thomas Henry Huxley was born in England. Huxley coined the term "agnostic" (although George Holyoake also claimed that honor). Huxley defined agnosticism as a method, "the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle . . . the axiom that every man should be able to give a reason for the faith that is in him." Huxley elaborated: "In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without any other consideration. And negatively, in matters of the intellect do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable" (from his essay "Agnosticism").

Huxley received his medical degree from Charing Cross School of Medicine, becoming a physiologist, and was awarded many other honorary degrees. He spent his youth exploring science, especially zoology and anatomy, lecturing on natural history, and writing for scientific publications. He was president of the Royal Society, and was elected to the London School Board in 1870, where he championed a number of common-sense reforms. Huxley earned the nickname "Darwin's Bulldog" when he debated Darwin's On the Origin of Species with Bishop Samuel Wilberforce in Oxford in 1860. When Wilberforce asked him which side of his family contained the ape, Huxley famously replied that he would prefer to descend from an ape than a human being who used his intellect "for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into grave scientific discussion." Thereafter, Huxley devoted his time to the defense of science over religion. His essays included "Agnosticism and Christianity" (1889). His three rationalist grandsons were Sir Julian Huxley, a biologist, novelist Aldous Huxley, and Andrew Huxley, co-winner of a 1963 Nobel Prize. Huxley, appropriately, received the Darwin Medal in 1894. D. 1895.

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