Thomas Henry Huxley
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"How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djinn when Aladdin rubbed his lamp." --The Elements of Physiology and Hygiene (1868) Thomas Henry Huxley "Two thousand five hundred years ago, the value of civilization was as apparent as it is now; then, as now, it was obvious that only in the garden of an orderly polity can the finest fruits humanity is capable of bearing be produced."--Evolution and Ethics (1893) by Thomas Henry Huxley |
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Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 – 1895) was an English biologist known for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
The famous Aladdin consciousness dictum
"A reflex action, strictly so called, takes place without our knowing any thing about it, and hundreds of such actions are going on continually in our bodies without our being aware of them. But it very frequently happens that we learn that something is going on, when a stimulus affects our afferent nerves, by having what we call a feeling or sensation. We class sensations along with emotions, and volitions and thoughts under the common head of states of consciousness. But what consciousness is, we know not; and how it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djin when Aladdin rubbed his lamp in the story, or as any other ultimate fact of nature." --The Elements of Physiology and Hygiene
Works
- Zoological Notes and Observations Made on Board H.M.S. Rattlesnake during the Years 1846-50. AnMNH, ser. 2. 7 (1851)
- Manual of human histology (1853) Vol 1; Vol 2
- Manual of human microscopical anatomy (1854) external link
- On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences. [An address delivered at St. Martin's Hall] (London 1854).
- The oceanic Hydrozoa (1859) external link
- On our knowledge of the causes of the phenomena of organic nature. (1863) external link
- Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature. London 1863; CE 7: 1-208. Template:Small scan link
- The cerebral structure of man and apes, 1863
- Lectures on the elements of comparative anatomy (1864) external link
- Pre-historic remains of Caithness. With Notes on the human remains with Samuel Laing (1866) external link
- Lessons in Elementary Physiology. London 1866. (sel.)
- The Culture Demanded by Modern Life et al. (1867) external link
- An introduction to the classification of animals (1869) external link
- On the physical basis of life (1870) external link
- Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals. London 1871. (New version 1881). (sel.) external link
- Mr. Darwin's critics (1871) external link
- Critiques and Addresses (1873) external link
- Boys and girls in biology: or, Simple studies of the lower forms of life (1875) external link
- A Course of Practical Instruction in Elemetary Biology (1875) external link
- A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals. London 1877. (sel.) external link
- Physiography: An Introduction to the Study of Nature London 1877. (sel.) external link
- American Addresses: With a Lecture on the Study of Biology (1877) external link
- Hume (London. 1878); CE 6: 3-240. external link
- The Crayfish: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology. London 1879. external link
- Introductory Science Primer. London 1880. external link alternate 3rd
- The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology (1881)
- Fish Diseases (1883) external link
- Darwin and Humboldt : their lives and work (1883) external link
- Technical education and other essays external link
- The elements of physiology and hygiene; a text-book for educational institutions (1884) external link
- Lessons in Elementary Physiology (1885) external link
- The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study. The Nineteenth Century 19 (1886)
- Select Works of Thomas H. Huxley (1886) external link
- A Course of Elementary Instruction in Practical Biology (1888) external link
- Agnosticism (1889) external link
- On the Origin of Species, Or, The Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature (1889) external link
- Essays upon some Controverted Questions, 1892 external link
- Evolution and Ethics, 1893
- Collected Essays 1893-94. v. 1. Methods and results.—v. 2 Darwiniana.—v. 3 Science and education.—v. 4 Science and Hebrew tradition.—v. 5 Science and Christian tradition.—v. 6 Hume.—v. 7 Man's place in nature.—v. 8 Discourses, biological and geological.—v. 9 Evolution and ethics
- Method and results external link
- Darwiniana (1897) external link
- Science and education : essays external link
- Science and Hebrew Tradition: Essays external link
- Science and Christian Tradition: Essays external link
- Man's Place in Nature 1894 Template:Small scan link Template:Ext scan link
- Discourses biological and geological: essays external link
- Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays external link
- Science And Culture And Other Essays external link
- The Struggle for Existence in Human Society (1894) external link
- The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley. ed. Leonard Huxley. 2 vols. London 1900. volume 1 external linkvolume 2 external linkvolume 3 external link Supplementary volume external link
- The Advance of Science in the Last Half-century (1898) external link
- The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley. 4 vols. + supplement. ed. Michael Foster and E. Ray Lankester. London 1898-1903. external link
- Aphorisms and Reflections, ed. Henrietta Huxley. London 1907. external link
- Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews (1910) external link
- Selections from Huxley (1912) external link
- Readings from Huxley (1920) external link
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