【编辑推荐】: 天演论(英文版)是开启一个时代的惊天之作。 戊戍维新运动的领袖康有为见到严复译出的《天演论》,曾惊呼“眼中未见有此等人”,并由衷地称誉严复“为中国西学**者也”。 As THE nickname "Darwin's bulldog" would suggest, Huxley was an outspoken defender and advocate for Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. He is best known for his fam《天演论(英文版)》us debate in June 186o, at the British Association meeting at Oxford, at which Archbishop Wilberforce ridiculed evolution and asked Huxley whether he was descended from an ape on his grandmother's side or his grandfather's. "If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence & yet who employs these faculties & that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion, I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape." Said Huxley when he recalled the scene. IT MAY be safely assumed that, two thousand years ago, before Caesar set foot in southern Britain, the whole countryside visible from the windows of the room in which I write, was in what is called "the state of nature." Except, it may be, by raising a few sepulchral mounds, such as those which still, here and there, break the flowing contours of the downs, man's hands had made no mark upon it; and the thin veil of vegetation which overspread the broad-backed heights and the shelving sides of the Combs was unaffected by his industry. The native grasses and weeds, the scattered patches of gorse, contended with one another for the possession of the scanty surface soil... Yet nothing is more certain than that, measured by the liberal scale of time- keeping Of the universe, this present state of nature, however it may seem to have gone and to go on for ever, is but a fleeting phase of her infinite variety; merely the last of the series of changes which the earth's surface has undergone in the course of the millions of years of its existence.
【作者简介】: T. H. Huxley (1825-1895), the son of a maths teacher. At 21, Huxley signed on as assistant surgeon on HMS Rattlesnake, a Royal Navy ship assigned to chart the seas around Australia and New Guinea. During the voyage, he collected and studied marine invertebrates, sending his papers back to London. When he returned he found that the papers had been read and admired and in I851 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He met Charles Darwin in around 1856 and was won over by his theory of evolution by natural selection, which provoked a storm of controversy because it challenged the Christian belief that God created life on Earth. Huxley's repeated and passionate defence of the book earned him the nickname of "Darwin's Bulldog".
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【编辑推荐】: 天演论(英文版)是开启一个时代的惊天之作。 戊戍维新运动的领袖康有为见到严复译出的《天演论》,曾惊呼“眼中未见有此等人”,并由衷地称誉严复“为中国西学**者也”。 As THE nickname "Darwin's bulldog" would suggest, Huxley was an outspoken defender and advocate for Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. He is best known for his fam《天演论(英文版)》us debate in June 186o, at the British Association meeting at Oxford, at which Archbishop Wilberforce ridiculed evolution and asked Huxley whether he was descended from an ape on his grandmother's side or his grandfather's. "If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence & yet who employs these faculties & that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion, I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape." Said Huxley when he recalled the scene. IT MAY be safely assumed that, two thousand years ago, before Caesar set foot in southern Britain, the whole countryside visible from the windows of the room in which I write, was in what is called "the state of nature." Except, it may be, by raising a few sepulchral mounds, such as those which still, here and there, break the flowing contours of the downs, man's hands had made no mark upon it; and the thin veil of vegetation which overspread the broad-backed heights and the shelving sides of the Combs was unaffected by his industry. The native grasses and weeds, the scattered patches of gorse, contended with one another for the possession of the scanty surface soil... Yet nothing is more certain than that, measured by the liberal scale of time- keeping Of the universe, this present state of nature, however it may seem to have gone and to go on for ever, is but a fleeting phase of her infinite variety; merely the last of the series of changes which the earth's surface has undergone in the course of the millions of years of its existence.
【作者简介】: T. H. Huxley (1825-1895), the son of a maths teacher. At 21, Huxley signed on as assistant surgeon on HMS Rattlesnake, a Royal Navy ship assigned to chart the seas around Australia and New Guinea. During the voyage, he collected and studied marine invertebrates, sending his papers back to London. When he returned he found that the papers had been read and admired and in I851 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He met Charles Darwin in around 1856 and was won over by his theory of evolution by natural selection, which provoked a storm of controversy because it challenged the Christian belief that God created life on Earth. Huxley's repeated and passionate defence of the book earned him the nickname of "Darwin's Bulldog".
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INTRODUCTION TO THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY I HUXLEY AND DARWIN II THE BATTLE FOR EVOLUTION PREFACE I EVOLUTION AND ETHICS I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV II EVOLUTION AND ETHICS III SCIENCE AND MORALS I II III ……
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