Lectures and Essays
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Why I was christened Thomas Henry I do not know; but it is a curious chance that my parents should have fixed for my usual denomination upon the name of that particular Apostle with whom I have always felt most sympathy.
Chapters (34)
- LECTURES AND ESSAYS
- The People's Library Cassell And Company, Ltd. London, Paris, New York, Toronto & Melbourne. MCMVIII.
- EDITOR'S NOTE.
- NOTICE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE CAUSES OF THE PHENOMENA OF ORGANIC NATURE:
- THE PRESENT CONDITION OF ORGANIC NATURE.
- THE PAST CONDITION OF ORGANIC NATURE.
- THE METHOD BY WHICH THE CAUSES OF THE PRESENT AND PAST CONDITIONS OF ORGANIC NATURE ARE TO BE DISCOVERED.—THE ORIGINATION OF LIVING BEINGS.
- THE PERPETUATION OF LIVING BEINGS, HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION AND VARIATION.
- THE CONDITIONS OF EXISTENCE AS AFFECTING THE PERPETUATION OF LIVING BEINGS.
- A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE POSITION OF MR. DARWIN'S WORK, "ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES," IN RELATION TO THE COMPLETE THEORY OF THE CAUSES OF THE PHENOMENA OF ORGANIC NATURE.
- THE DARWINIAN HYPOTHESIS.*
- ([Footnote] *'Times', December 26th, 1850.)
- DARWIN ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.
- TIME AND LIFE.*
- ([Footnote] *"Macmillan's Magazine", December 1859.)
- MR. DARWIN'S "ORIGIN OF SPECIES".
- THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.*
- ([Footnote] *'The Westminster Review', April 1860.)
- CRITICISMS ON "THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES".*
- ([Footnote] *'The Natural History Review', 1864.)
- EVIDENCE AS TO MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE
- 1863.
- ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAN-LIKE APES.
- ON THE RELATIONS OF MAN TO THE LOWER ANIMALS.
- A SUCCINCT HISTORY OF THE CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE CEREBRAL STRUCTURE OF MAN AND THE APES.
- ON SOME FOSSIL REMAINS OF MAN.
- ON THE ADVISABLENESS OF IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE.*
- ON THE STUDY OF ZOOLOGY.*
- GEOLOGICAL CONTEMPORANEITY AND PERSISTENT TYPES OF LIFE.*
- CORAL AND CORAL REEFS.*
- ([Footnote] *A Lecture delivered in Manchester, November 4th, 1870.)
- YEAST.
- WILLIAM HARVEY AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD.
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