目录 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
精彩内容 "I have just read the Edinburgh, which, without doubt is by~. It is extremely malignant, clever, and, I fear, will be very damaging. He is atrociously severe on Huxley's lecture, and very bitter against Hooker. So we three enjoyed it together. Not that I really enjoyed it, for it made me uncomfortable for one night; but I have quite got over it today. It requires much study to appreciate all the bitter spite of many of the remarks against me; indeed I did not discover all myself. It scandalously misrepresents many parts. He misquotes some passages, altering words within inverted commas.... It is painful to be hated in the intense degree with which~hates me." As Owen was still alive when this letter was published in Darwin's Life, the authorship of the review was not actually mentioned; but it is necessary to mention it, as it justifies the sternness with which Huxley exposed Owen on an occasion shortly to be described. The review in the Quarterly wsls written by Wilberforce, the Bishop of Oxford, in July, i860, and almost at once the authorship of it became known to Darwin's friends. In connection with this, Huxley wrote in 1887, in Darwin,s Life and Letters: "I doubt if there was any man then living who had a better right (than Darwin) to expect that anything he might choose to say on such a question as the Origin of Species would be listened to with profound attention, and ……
以下为对购买帮助不大的评价