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brief summary of Huxley's ongoing feud with positivism, see James G. Paradis,
T. H. Huxley: Man's Place in Nature
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1978), 80-86; and Sydney Eisen, “Huxley and the Positivists,”
Victorian Studies
7 (1964): 337-58.
2
Thomas H. Huxley, “Agnosticism: A Symposium,”
Agnostic Annual
, 1884.
3
Michael Bartholomew, “Huxley's Defence of Darwin,”
Annals of Science
32
(1975): 425-35; Sherrie L. Lyons,
Thomas Henry Huxley: The Evolution of a Sci-
entist
(Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1999), 13-24; Adrian Desmond,
Huxley:
From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest
(Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley,
1997), 627.
4
See especially J. Vernon Jensen,
Thomas Henry Huxley: Communicating for Sci-
ence
(Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1991), 166-85; Leonard Huxley,
Thomas Henry Huxley: A Character Sketch
(1920; reprint, Freeport, N.Y.: Books
for Libraries, 1969), 43-50; Ed Block Jr., “T. H. Huxley's Rhetoric and the
Popularization of Victorian Scientific Ideas: 1854-1874,”
Victorian Studies
29
(1986): 363-86; and Walter Houghton, “The Rhetoric of T. H. Huxley,”
Uni-
versity of Toronto Quarterly
18 (1949): 159-75.
5
Adrian Desmond, introduction to
Scientific Papers and Correspondence of
Thomas Henry Huxley, c. 1843-1895, from the Imperial College of Science, Tech-
nology, and Medicine, London
, units 1 and 2 of
Darwin, Huxley and the Natural
Sciences
(London: Research Publications, 1990), 5 (emphasis in original).
6
Paul White,
Thomas Huxley: Making the “Man of Science”
(Cambridge: Cam-
bridge University Press, 2003), 69-75; Desmond,
Huxley
, 190, 192-93, 195-
97, 204-5, 219-20, 224-25, 261-62.
7
These are published as Thomas H. Huxley, “The Darwinian Hypothesis,”
Selected Works
, 2:1-21; and Thomas H. Huxley, “The Origin of Species,”
Selected Works
, 22-79.
8
Thomas H. Huxley to John Morley, February 7, 1878, in
Life and Letters of
Thomas Huxley
, ed. Leonard Huxley (New York: Appleton, 1901), 1:523.
9
Huxley to Herbert Spencer, November 7, 1886, in
Life and Letters
, 2:154.
10
Huxley to Ray Lankester, December 6, 1888, in
Life and Letters
, 2:227.
11
Huxley to Charles Darwin, November 14, 1880, in
Life and Letters
, 2:15.
12
Huxley to Ernst Haeckel, May 20, 1867, in
Life and Letters
, 1:309-10 (emphasis
is in original).
13
Adrian Desmond, introduction to
Scientific Papers and Correspondence
, 5.
14
John Fiske to Abby Fiske, December 31, 1873, in
The Letters of John Fiske
,
Ethel
F. Fiske, ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1940), 296; John Fiske to Abby Fiske,
November 12, 1873, in
Letters of John Fiske
, 270 -71.
