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On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge

by Thomas Henry Huxley

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Speaking in London in January 1866, two centuries after the Plague and the Great Fire, Huxley contrasts the helpless piety of 1666 with what natural knowledge has since achieved. He argues that science is more than a comfort-grinding machine: it reshapes our ideas, our morals and our sense of what we may believe.

A short, forceful lay sermon from Darwin’s great champion. Download the free EPUB.

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