Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. HuxleyHuxley, Thomas Henry
Philosophy
Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Science
---- inert, CCCXLIII
---- its existence a metaphysical assumption, CXLVIII
Means and ends, political, CCCXXXIV
Mechanism and education, XXI
Medicine the foster-mother of the sciences, CIII
Mental and moral activities, determinants of, CXXXII
---- analogies with the brutes, CLIII
---- intoxication, CXXXIII
Messiah, science has none, CCCLXXVIII
Metaphysics and matter, CLXVIII
---- and the limits of certainty, CLXVII
---- the problem of, CCCXII
Method of science, VIII
---- ---- spread of, CCCLXXVII
Middle-age, chief pleasure of, CCCXXXIX
Militarism and industrialism, CCCLXXIX
Millennium, the, and evolution, CCLII
Ministers to the world's weaknesses, CCCLXVII
Miracle of nature, LIV
Miracles, no _a priori_ objection to, CCCXI
Misery, XXXIII
Missionaries, XXXIX
Mistakes, CXXXVI;
_cf._ Error
---- and acknowledgment of them, CXXXVII, CXLI
Modern teaching, essence of, CCIX
Moral activities, determinants of, CXXXII
---- aspects of faith, CXXXVIII, CXXXIX, CXLI, CXLV
---- cripples and idiots, CCCLXX
---- conditions of success, CCLXXX
---- duty defined, CCCLXVIII
---- law, how far it can be fulfilled, CCCLXX
---- laws true, even if moral sense non-existent, CCCLXVIII
---- purpose, no sign of, in nature, CCCLIX;
of human origin, _ib._
---- sanction, how far based on pure feeling, CLXIII, CLXIV
---- sense, CCCLXIX
---- teaching more needful than intellectual, CCCXIX
Morality and religion, CXVII;
_cf._ CLXIII, CLXIV;
distinguished, CCCXVIII
---- is embodied in society, CCLXXV
Mordecai and Haman, CCXXXIII
Mother wit (_cf._ Genius), V;
_cf._ CLIV, CLV
Motion, integrating or disintegrating, CCCXLII
Museums, local, CCXCIV
Myth and science, LIX
Names, idolatry of, CCCXLIII
National greatness, CX
Native talent, CLV
Natural causes, great effects of, CXCVII
---- History and Life's Picture Gallery, LXXX
---- knowledge and truth, CL;
a forecourt to philosophy, CLI
---- rights, XLVII
Nature, laws of, XLVI, LIII, LVI, CCCXII
---- as opposed to society, CCLXXIV
---- benevolence and malevolence in, CCLXIX, CCLXXII, CCCXLVII
---- deafening cries of pain in, CCCXLVII
---- defined, CCXLVIII
---- gladiatorial aspect of, CCLXX
---- her great Fugue, CCLXXXVIII
---- her vis medicatrix, CCLXXVI
---- is non-moral, CCLXXIII, CCCLVIII
---- justice of, CCCII, CCCIV, CCCV
---- justifies neither optimism nor pessimism, CCLXXIII, CCCXXX
---- matter and force, LV
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