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The Economist (US), January 28th, 1995

HUXLEY. By Adrian Desmond. Michael Joseph; 475 pages; Pounds 20

HE WAS known as "Darwin's bulldog". A newly converted Paul preaching the gospel of evolution written by the retiring Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley dashed into the evolutionary dogfight, mauling the clerics and reactionaries.

Only the Devil's disciple, seemingly, could preach such infamy; in reality, as Mr Desmond shows, Huxley was the archetypal earnest Victorian, almost puritan in personal morality. But he believed in progress, and was a friend of such avant-garde thinkers as George Eliot, John Stuart Mill and The Econo...

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