On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge - Thomas Henry Huxley

On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge

By Thomas Henry Huxley

  • Release Date: 1895-06-29
  • Genre: Science & Nature Essays

Description

This essay written in the 19th century is a great little treatise about science and its history, methods, and philosophy, as well as about the origins of moral beliefs and reasoning. Some twenty years before the outbreak of the plague a few calm and thoughtful students banded themselves together for the purpose, as they phrased it, of "improving natural knowledge".

Comments