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
---- limits of, XIV
---- method of, VIII, LXXVII
---- motto of, CCCL
---- picture it draws of the world, LXII
---- popularisation of, CLXXXVI
---- spirit of, LXIX, CL, CCCLXXVII
---- success in, CCCLXXV
---- tragedy of, CCXIX
Scientific imagination, CXXXI, CXLIX;
and the Aryan question, CLXXXI
---- idea, growth and efficacy of, CCXXII
Secondary causes, CLXXXVII
Selection, social, XXXI;
the basis of evolution, CCXXX;
may be rapid, CLXXXVIII
Self-surrender to nature, CCCI
Shakespeare, XCII
Shams, CCCLX
Silkworm disease, CCXXI
Sin gravitates to sorrow, CCCV
---- lasting punishment of, CCCXXVIII
---- origin of, CCCLXII
Size and greatness, CX
Skill, a greater than, CXXIX
Slavery, the double emancipation, LXXXI
---- effects of, CCCXIII
Slowness of evolution, CCV
Social selection, XXXI;
_cf._ CCXXXV
---- life is embodied morality, CCLXXV
---- science, CCCLXXXI;
nicknamed "Dismal," _ib._;
value of its method, _ib._
---- tendency, the, CCXXXIII
Socially unfit, the, CCXXXVI
Society, complexity of, XXXVI
---- a limitation of the struggle for existence, CCLXXV
---- and individualism, XLIX, L, CCCLXVIII
---- and the individual, XLVIII
---- as opposed to nature, CCLXXIV
---- conditions of its stability, CCLXXIX
---- internal struggle, CCXXXVII;
permanence of, CCXXXVIII
---- moral conditions of success, CCLXXX
---- population question, XLV
---- statute of limitations needed in, XLIII
---- the end of, CCCLXVIII
---- the individual's debt to, CCLXXXIII
Socrates put to death by the demagogues, CXLVIII
Sorrow, inevitable, CCLII
---- deep plunge into, CCCXLVI
Soul in automata, XXVII
Soundings, deep sea, CXCII
Southey and the Quaker, CXXVI
Spallanzani, CCXXII
Sphinx, the true riddle of the, CCLXXVIII
Spiritualism, its only use if true, CCCXXV
Stanley, Dean, on being made a bishop, CCCLXXXIII
Starvation on ortolans, CCCXLVIII
Starve, who shall first? CCLXXIX
State not infallible, CCLXXXII
Stimulants and brain work, CCCLV
Structural unity of men and animals, CLXXII
Struggle for existence, among ideas, LXVIII;
modified within society, CCXXXVII;
but permanent, CCXXXVIII;
limited by society, CCLXXV
---- and original sin, CCXXXII, CCXLI
---- the serious, CCLII
---- two-fold, in civilisation, CCXLII
Studies, the conflict of, XCIII
Success, moral conditions of, CCLXXXI, CCCXXVII
Suffering and wisdom, XC
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