Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...patronized by the Aimee Open Company and by the elite of Boston. Whitney's is of course enlarged upon, and the inevitable "Harvard Room" and "mutton-chop weighing a full pound before it is cooked" are dragged in. We drew a sigh of relief, however, to see that Professor Huxley's remarks on the subject of protoplasm were omitted...
...most of whom are probably sent to imbibe conservative views, or because they or their parents have been fired by reading "Tom Brown." But Oxford is commonly conceived of as far more stereotyped than it really is. Among the works studied are those of Gibbon, Hume, Voltaire, Mill, Darwin, Huxley, and Tyndall. In Merton Library old books still remain chained to the wall, but as a visitor was looking at them he noticed that the last two books issued to a student were works of the most sweeping radical of the time...
...Aryans. - Who are the Aryans? Origin and meaning of the name. The Comparative Method. Survey of Aryan languages. Huxley's theory of the race-elements in Europe...
EVER since Mr. Huxley's visit to this country evolution has been the prominent topic of discussion in scientific circles. So various have been the opinions which we find in the papers from day to day, that a clear explanation of the theory could not fail both to please and to instruct many who have been puzzled by the conflicting opinions they have read...