Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to ...

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY was above all else a great personality. He belongs to that small group of great men who exercised a profound influence over their contemporaries by the force of their ...

Thomas Henry Huxley, known as "Darwin's bulldog," tries to rally to the defense. Huxley later depicts the exchange as a confrontation between social conservatives and advocates of scientific progress.