Produced by Clare Boothby, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text. * * * * * Page numbers enclosed by curly braces (example: {25}) have been incorporated to facilitate the use of the Table of Contents. * * * * * ESSAYS UPON SOME CONTROVERTED QUESTIONS BY THOMAS H. HUXLEY, F.R.S. London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1892 _All rights reserved_ * * * * * {v} CONTENTS PROLOGUE Page 1 I THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF PALÆONTOLOGY An Address delivered at the York Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1881 55 II THE INTERPRETERS OF GENESIS AND THE INTERPRETERS OF NATURE _Nineteenth Century_, December 1885 75 III MR GLADSTONE AND GENESIS _Nineteenth Century_, February 1886 98 _Note on the proper sense of the "Mosaic" narrative of the Creation_ 126 IV THE EVOLUTION OF THEOLOGY: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY _Nineteenth Century_, March and April 1886 131 V SCIENCE AND MORALS _Fortnightly Review_, November 1886 209 {vi} VI SCIENTIFIC AND PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC REALISM _Nineteenth Century_, February 1887 237 VII SCIENCE AND PSEUDO-SCIENCE _Nineteenth Century_, April 1887 265 VIII AN EPISCOPAL TRILOGY _Nineteenth Century_, November 1887 298 IX AGNOSTICISM _Nineteenth Century_, February 1889 329 X THE VALUE OF WITNESS TO THE MIRACULOUS _Nineteenth Century_, March 1889 378 XI AGNOSTICISM: A REJOINDER _Nineteenth Century_, April 1889 407 XII AGNOSTICISM AND CHRISTIANITY _Nineteenth Century_, June 1889 449 XIII THE LIGHTS OF THE CHURCH AND THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE _Nineteenth Century_, July 1890 501 {vii} XIV THE KEEPERS OF THE HERD OF SWINE _Nineteenth Century_, December 1890 535 XV ILLUSTRATIONS OF MR. GLADSTONE'S CONTROVERSIAL METHODS _Nineteenth Century_, March 1891 559 XVI HASISADRA'S ADVENTURE _Nineteenth Century_, June 1891 583 * * * * * {viii}