AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND SELECTED ESSAYS

by Thomas Henry Huxley

Note: The notes at the end of the book were originally referenced by page number. I have instead inserted numbers within the text in the format [xx] and cross-referenced these to the appropriate notes.—D.L.

Edited, with introduction and notes by Ada L. F. Snell Associate
Professor Of English Mount Holyoke College

Riverside College Classics Copyright 1909

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

I — THE LIFE OF HUXLEY

II — SUBJECT-MATTER, STRUCTURE, AND STYLE

III — SUGGESTED STUDIES IN SUBJECT-MATTER, STRUCTURE, AND STYLE

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY — AUTOBIOGRAPHY [1]

ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE [19]

A LIBERAL EDUCATION [49]

ON A PIECE OF CHALK [57]

THE PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS OF EDUCATION [76]

THE METHOD OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION [86]

ON THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE [92]

ON CORAL AND CORAL REEFS [110]


NOTES

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE (1866)

A LIBERAL EDUCATION (1868)

ON A PIECE OF CHALK

THE PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS OF EDUCATION (1882)

THE METHOD OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION (1863)

ON THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE (1868)

ON CORAL AND CORAL REEFS (1870)

REFERENCE BOOKS

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PREFACE

The purpose of the following selections is to present to students of English a few of Huxley's representative essays. Some of these selections are complete; others are extracts. In the latter case, however, they are not extracts in the sense of being incomplete wholes, for each selection given will be found to have, in Aristotle's phrase, "a beginning, a middle, and an end." That they are complete in themselves, although only parts of whole essays, is due to the fact that Huxley, in order to make succeeding material clear, often prepares the way with a long and careful definition. Such is the

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