Critiques and Addresses

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Critiques and Addresses" by Thomas Henry Huxley is a philosophical collection written in the late 19th century. The work encompasses a series of essays that primarily engage with educational, scientific, and political topics, reflecting Huxley's thoughts and critiques on these significant aspects of society. The book serves not only as a platform for Huxley's views on education and government intervention but also touches upon the philosophical underpinnings of those subjects. The opening of the book provides a preface in which Huxley outlines the motivations behind the essays compiled within. He reflects on his experiences with the London School Board, noting his election and subsequent struggles with colleagues on educational policy. Huxley discusses the contentious views regarding state education and critiques the arguments against it, particularly the belief that educating the poor would disrupt societal structure. He articulates his understanding of the government's role in education and societal welfare, setting a foundation for deeper discussions in the following essays about the intersections of education, morality, and progress. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

Administrative nihilism

The school boards: what they can do, and what they may do

On medical education

Yeast

On the formation of coal

On coral and coral reefs

On the methods and results of ethnology

On some fixed points in British ethnology

Palaeontology and the doctrine of evolution

Mr. Darwin's critics

The genealogy of animals

Bishop Berkeley on the metaphysics of sensation.

Credits:

Produced by Bill Hershey and PG Distributed Proofreaders

Notes:

Reading ease score: 47.0 (College-level). Difficult to read.

Release date is 2004-06-01