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ESSAYS

UPON SOME

CONTROVERTED QUESTIONS

THOMAS H. HUXLEY, F.R.S.

London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1892

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CONTENTS

PROLOGUE Page 1

THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF PALÆONTOLOGY

An Address delivered at the York Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1881 55

THE INTERPRETERS OF GENESIS AND THE INTERPRETERS OF NATURE

Nineteenth Century, December 1885 75

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MR GLADSTONE AND GENESIS

Nineteenth Century, February 1886 98

Note on the proper sense of the "Mosaic" narrative of the Creation 126

THE EVOLUTION OF THEOLOGY: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY

Nineteenth Century, March and April 1886 131

SCIENCE AND MORALS

Fortnightly Review, November 1886 209

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