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This introductory chapter describes Maxwell’s and Huxley’s backgrounds, particularly the formation of their views on and experience with religion. It shows the variety of “religion” present in the Victorian period: it is necessary to distinguish personal religiosity, institutional religion, and Anglican theology.
Jul 13, 2023 · The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution, a double biography that spans Thomas Henry's birth in 1825 to Julian's death in 1975, traces the 150- year arc of British evolutionary biology, anthropology, zoology, liter-ature, psychology, eugenics, imperial politics, and more.
Huxley perceived religion in his younger years and show how a deeply spiritual man started his journey, as well as show how Huxley’s religious beliefs and opinions were influenced by his surroundings.
Thomas Henry Huxley. In the vulgar mythology of the television screen, Huxley and Wilberforce are not so much personalities as the warring embodiments of rival moralities: Huxley, the archangel Michael of enlightenment, knowledge, and the disinterested pursuit of truth; Wilberforce, the dark defender of the failing forces of
Nov 24, 2014 · This book explores this shift through a parallel study of two major scientific figures of the century: James Clerk Maxwell, a devout Christian physicist, and Thomas Henry Huxley, the iconoclast biologist who coined the word agnostic.
This paper will attempt to illustrate some of the potential by looking at the complex relationship between science and religion in Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel, Brave New World.
Despite its continuing presence in the popular media, contemporary historians of religion and science now regard White's warfare thesis as an artifact of the constantly shifting relationships between these two cultural fields rather than a viable analysis of their engagement.
