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SCIENCE AND CULTURE

AND

OTHER ESSAYS

SCIENCE AND CULTURE
AND
OTHER ESSAYS

BY

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, LL.D., F.R.S.

London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK1888

All rights reserved


First Edition printed 1881
Reprinted 1882, 1888.


PREFACE.

The Addresses, Lectures, and Essays gathered togetherin this volume have appeared at intervalsduring the past seven years, and I can give no betterreason for republishing them in their present form,than the fact that three earlier collections of a similarnature have been received with favour, and, indeed,have not yet ceased to be in request.

I beg leave to offer my best thanks to the Editorsand Publishers of the various publications in whichthese pieces have appeared, for their kindly accordedpermission to reprint them.

London. October 1881.


CONTENTS.

I.
SCIENCE AND CULTURE.

An Address delivered at the Opening of Sir Josiah Mason’s Science College,at Birmingham, on the 1st of October 1880Pages1 to 23Pages1 to 23

II.
UNIVERSITIES: ACTUAL AND IDEAL.

The Inaugural Address of the Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen,27th February 1874.—Contemporary Review, 1874Pages1 to 2324 to 64

III.
TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

An Address delivered to the Working Men’s Club and Institute,1st December 1877.—Nineteenth Century, 1878Pages1 to 2365 to 85

IV.
ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION IN PHYSIOLOGY.

Read at the Meeting of the Domestic Economy Congress at Birmingham,1877Pages1 to 2386 to 93viii

V.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY.

An Address delivered on the occasion of the Presentation of a Statue ofPriestley to the Town of Birmingham, on the 1st of August 1874.—Macmillan’sMagazine, 1874Pages1 to 2394 to 127

VI.
ON THE METHOD OF ZADIG.

A Lecture delivered at the Working Men’s College, Great Ormond Street,1880.—Nineteenth Century, 1880Pages1 to 23128 to 148

VII.
ON THE BORDER T

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