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— The Religious Coutroversy — Huxley Advocates the 

 Bible without Theology — His Compromise on the 

 " Cowper-Temple " Clause — Influence of the New 

 Criticism — Science and Art Instruction — Training of 

 Teachers — University Education — The Baltimore Ad- 

 dress — Technical Education — So-called " Applied 

 Science " — National Systems of Education as "Ca- 

 pacity-Catchers. ' ' 



CHAPTER XII 



CITIZEN, ORATOR, AND ESSAYIST . . . 204 



Huxley's Activity in Public Affairs — OfiBcial in Sci- 

 entific Societies — Royal Commissions — Vivisection 

 — Characteristics of his Public Speaking — His Method 

 of Exposition — His Essays — Vocabulary — Phrase- 

 Making — His Style Essentially One of Ideas. 



CHAPTER XIII 



THE OPPONENT OF MATERIALISM . . .2X8 



Science and Metaphysics — Berkeley, Hume, and 

 Hobbes — Existence of Matter and Mind — Descartes's 

 Contribution — Materialism and Idealism — Criticism of 

 Materialism — Berkeley's Idealism — Criticism of Ideal- 

 ism — Empirical Idealism — Materialism as opposed to 

 Supernaturalism — Mind and Brain — Origin of Life — 

 Teleology, Chance, and the Argument from Design. 



CHAPTER XIV 



FREEDOM OF THOUGHT 232 



Authority and Knowledge in Science — The Duty of 

 Doubt — Authority and Individual Judgment in Re- 

 ligion — The Protestant Position — Sir Charles Lyell 

 and the Deluge — Infallibility — The Church and 

 Science — Morality and Dogma — Civil and Religious 

 Liberty — Agnosticism and Clericalism — Meaning of 



