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Huxley : from devil's disciple to evolution's high priest
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Huxley : from devil's disciple to evolution's high priest

Author: Adrian J Desmond
Publisher: Reading, Mass : Perseus Books, [1999], ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st pbk. printingView all editions and formats
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T.H. Huxley was Darwin's bulldog. He shook Victorian society, his "Devil's gospel" of evolution outraged them. He put "agnostic" into the vocabulary and "cave men" into the public consciousness. This  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Thomas Henry Huxley
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Adrian J Desmond
ISBN: 0738201405 9780738201405
OCLC Number: 42359855
Notes: "Helix books."
Originally published as 2 separate volumes: Huxley : the devil's disciple and Huxley : evolution's high priest. London : M. Joseph, 1994. Previously published: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1997.
Description: xx, 820 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The Devils Disciple; 18251846: Dreaming My Own Dreams; 18461850: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea; 18501858: Lost in the Wilderness; 18581865: The New Luther; 1865-1870: The Scientific Swell; Evolutions High Priest; 18701884: Marketing the New Nature; 18851895: The Old Lion.
Responsibility: Adrian Desmond.

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