Thomas Henry Huxley
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Huxley · Professor Huxley · هكسلى
in the texts
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The English naturalist cited from Darwiniana for the impossibility of overturning divinity by the doctrine of evolution, and quoted elsewhere calling the denier of Spinoza's God a fool while acknowledging the acting force.
Among them is Huxley, who acknowledges in his book *Darwiniana* that it is impossible to overturn divinity on the doctrine of evolution.
And he says in another article of his that whoever denies the existence of God as Spinoza conceived Him is a fool;
Law in a Free State
English biologist and essayist whose critique of a priori political philosophy and of individualism and socialism the author repeatedly engages, endorses in part, and disputes in part.
In his effort to supply destructive criticism of a priori political philosophy, which is the task Professor Huxley set before him, it seems to me he has been a little unjust to Individualism.
The power of the State may be defined as the resultant of all the social forces operating within a definite area, “It follows,” says Professor Huxley, with characteristic logical thoroughness, “that no limit is, or can be, theoretically set to State interference.
Referring to Professor Huxley's attack on anarchists as persons who build on baseless assumptions and fanciful suppositions, he says: