Life And Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — volume 1
Life And Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — volume 1
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H. Huxley. [Speaking of this period and the half-dozen preceding years, in his 1894preface to "Man's Place in Nature" he says:--] Among the many problems which came under my consideration, the positionof the human species in zoological classification was one of the mostserious. Indeed, at that time it was a burning question in the sensethat those who touched it were almost certain to burn their fingersseverely. It was not so very long since my kind friend, Sir WilliamLawrence, one of the ablest... men whom I have known, had been well-nighostracised for his book "On Man, " which now might be read in a Sundayschool without surprising anybody; it was only a few years since theelectors to the chair of Natural History in a famous northern universityhad refused to invite a very distinguished man to occupy it because headvocated the doctrine of the diversity of species of mankind, or whatwas called "polygeny. " Even among those who considered man from thepoint of view, not of vulgar prejudice, but of science, opinions laypoles asunder.
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