SOURCE: T. H. Huxley: Man's Place in Nature, University of Nebraska Press, 1978, pp. 1-9, 11-45, 165-96.
In the following excerpts, Paradis examines Huxley's early, romantic scientific view and his later view that man's hope lies in his moral objection to natural determinism. Paradis also explores Huxley's conception of the role of the scientist in understanding humankind's existential condition, comparing it specifically with Matthew Arnold's view as expressed in Culture and Anarchy.
