EBOOK AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND SELECTED ESSAYS ***
Produced by Donald Lainson
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND SELECTED ESSAYS
by
Thomas Henry Huxley
Note: The notes at the end of the book were originally
referenced by page number. I have instead inserted numbers
within the text in the format [xx] and cross-referenced
these to the appropriate notes.--D.L.
Edited, with introduction and notes by Ada L. F. Snell Associate
Professor Of English Mount Holyoke College
Riverside College Classics Copyright 1909
CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
The Life of Huxley
Subject-matter, Structure, and Style of Essays
Suggested Studies
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ON IMPROVING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE
A LIBERAL EDUCATION
ON A PIECE OF CHALK
THE PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS OF EDUCATION
THE METHOD OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION
ON THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF LIFE
ON CORAL AND CORAL REEFS
NOTES
PREFACE
The purpose of the following selections is to present to students
of English a few of Huxley's representative essays. Some of these
selections are complete; others are extracts. In the latter case,
however, they are not extracts in the sense of being incomplete wholes,
for each selection given will be found to have, in Aristotle's
phrase, "a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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