Autobiography and Selected Essays
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Chapters (24)(click to expand)
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND SELECTED ESSAYS
- 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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