Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Huxley contributes a brief paper to the Agnostic Annual, claiming to be the founder of agnosticism...
...follows:-No. V.-"Locke, with a notice of Berkeley." It is shown that Locke held by a body of truth, and that he has often been misunderstood; but that he has not by his experience theory iaid a sure foundation of knowledge. No. VI.-"David Hume as expounded by Huxley." It is unnecessary to examine Hume's skepticism, but it is best to do so in the defense of it by Huxley. No. VII.-"A Criticism of the Critical Philosophy," showing that kant has stated and defended most important truths, but has undermined knowledge by making the mind begin with...
...highest classical honors at Oxford have been taken by a son of Prof. Huxley...
...distance between the college scientist's lecture room and laboratory, and the shop of the machinist, the joiner, the furniture maker, the stonecutter, is no longer remote. One of the highest college-bred men of the present time is Prof. Huxley, and one of the strongest advocates of college and university training for all whose opportunities and means will permit them to enjoy it. He counts himself, and actually is, pre-eminently a handicraftsman whose life is mainly spent in his workshop, and his writings and addresses are what he learns from his own work. As civilization generally has advanced...
Professor Huxley has been appointed Sir Robert Rede's lecturer at Cambridge, England, during the present year. The professor's connection with Cambridge has recently become more close and authoritative from his selection as one of the non-resident electors to the professorships of anatomy and physiology...