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LAY SERMONS, 

 ADDKESSES, AND REVIEWS, 



BY THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. 

 Cloth, 12mo. 390 pages. Price, $1.75 



THIS is the latest and most popular of the works of this in- 

 itrepid and accomplished English thinker. The American edition 

 of the work is the latest, and contains, in addition to the English 

 edition, Professor Huxley's recent masterly address on " Spon- 

 taneous Generation," delivered before the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, of which he was president. 

 The following is from an able article in the Independent : 



The " Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews " is a book to be read 

 by every one who would keep up with the advance of truth as well by 

 those who are hostile as those who are friendly to his conclusions. In 

 it, scientific and philosophical topics are handled with consummate abil- 

 ity. It is remarkable for purity of style and power of expression. No- 

 where, in any modern work^ is the advancement of the pursuit of that 

 natural knowledge, which is of vital importance to bodily and mental 

 well-being, so ably handled. 



Professor Huxley is undoubtedly the representative scientific man of 

 the age. His reverence for the right and devotion to truth have estab- 

 lished his leadership of modern scientific thought. He leads the beliefs 

 and aspirations of the increasingly powerful body of the younger men of 

 science. His ability for research is marvellous. There is possible no more 

 equipoise of judgment than that to which he brings the phenomena of 

 Nature. Besides, he is not a mere scientist. His is a popularized phi. 

 losophy ; social questions have been treated by his pen in a manner most 

 masterly. In his popular addresses, embracing the widest range of top- 

 ics, he treads on ground with which he seems thoroughly familiar. 



There are those who hold the name of Professor Huxley as synony. 

 mous with irreverence and atheism. Plato's was so held, and Galileo't, 

 and Descartes's, and Newton's, and Faraday's. There can be no greatei 

 mistake. No man has greater reverence for the Bible than Huxley. Nc 

 one more acquaintance with the text of Scripture. He believes there is 

 definite government of the universe ; that pleasures and pains are distrib- 

 uted in accordance with law ; and that the certain proportion of evil 

 woven up in the life even of worms will help the man \vho thinks to bear 

 his own share with courage. 



In the estimate of Professor Huxley's future influence upon science, 

 his youth and health form a large element. He has just passed his forty, 

 fifth year. If God spare his life, truth can hardly fall to b the gainer 

 from a mind that is stored with knowledge of the laws of the Creator's 

 operations, and that has learned to love all beauty and hz.lt 1 Cj rileneas of 

 Nature and art. 



