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Title: American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology

Author: Tomas Henry Huxley

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AMERICAN ADDRESSES, WITH A LECTURE ON THE STUDY OF BIOLOGY

by

THOMAS H. HUXLEY.

London: MacMillan and Co.
London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, Printers, Bread Street Hill,
Queen Victoria Street.

1877

"Naturae leges et regulae, secundum quas omnia fiunt et ex unis
formis in alias mutantur, sunt ubique et semper eadem."

B. DE SPINOZA, _Ethices_, Pars tertia, Praefatio.

CONTENTS.

I. THREE LECTURES ON EVOLUTION (New York, September 18, 20, 22, 1876).

LECTURE I. THE THREE HYPOTHESES RESPECTING THE HISTORY OF NATURE

LECTURE II. THE HYPOTHESIS OF EVOLUTION. THE NEUTRAL AND THE
FAVOURABLE EVIDENCE

LECTURE III. THE DEMONSTRATIVE EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION

II. AN ADDRESS ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS
UNIVERSITY (Baltimore, September 12, 1876)

III. A LECTURE ON THE STUDY OF BIOLOGY, IN CONNECTION WITH THE LOAN
COLLECTION OF SCIENTIFIC APPARATUS (South Kensington Museum,
December 16, 1876)

NEW YORK.

LECTURES ON EVOLUTION.

LECTURE I.

THE THREE HYPOTHESES RESPECTING THE HISTORY OF NATURE.

We live in and form part of a system of things of immense diversity and
perplexity, which we call Nature; and it is a matter of the deepest
interest to al