... Predestination, should be, as the Thirty-Nine Articles say, of 'sweet, pleasant and unspeakable comfort' to those who understand the inevitable and beneficent laws of the Universe. Huxley opposed this theory and attacked Spencer in his Romanes lecture... Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley - Page 379by Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1900Full view - About this book
| Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley - 1900 - 586 pages
...of the likes of me. As the Jacobins said of Lavoisier, the Republic has no need of men of science. * As for your criticisms, don't you know that I am become...very faithfully, TH HUXLEY. HODESLEA, EASTBOURNE, fuly 15, 1893. MY DEAR SKELTON — I fear I must admit that even a Gladstonian paper occasionally tells... | |
| Edward Clodd - 1902 - 278 pages
...was an effort, he explained 1 II. 350. » Coll. Essays, ix. p. vii. to more than one correspondent, " to put the Christian doctrine, that Satan is the Prince of this world, upon a scientific foundation " ! The main thesis was briefly sketched in an essay, published five years previously (in 1888), on... | |
| Arthur Compton-Rickett - 1906 - 246 pages
...remarkable work on Ethics and Evolution deserves the closest consideration. This work was, he explained, an effort to put the Christian doctrine that Satan...prince of this world upon a scientific foundation. As it is by far the most important contribution of the scientist to ethical thought, I may be excused... | |
| Howard L. Kaye - 1997 - 208 pages
...comforts and authority of a harmoniously ordered and beneficent nature, those for whom Huxley's apparent "effort to put the Christian doctrine that Satan is...Prince of this world upon a scientific foundation" was repugnant (Huxley, quoted in Bannister 1979, p. 147), it was still possible to escape the nihilism... | |
| Michael D. Vose - 1999 - 650 pages
...theory and attacked Spencer in his Romanes lecture Evolution and Ethics (1893) which, he said, was 'really an effort to put the Christian doctrine that...Prince of this world upon a scientific foundation.' He denied that the Fittest was necessarily the Best. In any case 'social progress means a checking... | |
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