Thomas Henry Huxley
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Huxley was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialised in comparative anatomy.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 4 May 1825, Ealing, Middlesex (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 29 Jun 1895, Eastbourne, of a heart attack (opens wiqqi.app)
- HMS Rattlesnake: Assistant surgeon on a survey voyage to New Guinea and Australia from 1846 (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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17 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The idea that ethical nature, though born of cosmic nature, is necessarily at enmity with it is a fundamental truth (opens korrents.com)
“All I have endeavoured to do, at present, is to remove that which seems to have proved a stumbling-block to many—namely, the apparent paradox that ethical nature, while born of cosmic nature, is necessarily at enmity…”
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The central task of every human life is finding the right balance between self-assertion and self-restraint (opens korrents.com)
“The motive of the drama of human life is the necessity, laid upon every man who comes into the world, of discovering the mean between self-assertion and self-restraint suited to his character and his circumstances.”
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Cultivation rests on a principle opposed to that of the cosmic process, not just at odds with nature (opens korrents.com)
“Not only is the state of nature hostile to the state of art of the garden; but the principle of the horticultural process, by which the latter is created and maintained, is antithetic to that of the cosmic process.”
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The idea that ethical nature, though born of cosmic nature, is necessarily at enmity with it is a fundamental truth (opens korrents.com)