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Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He has become known as " Darwin's Bulldog " for his advocacy of Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution .
Liberal education was advocated in the 19th century by thinkers such as John Henry Newman, Thomas Huxley, and F. D. Maurice. The decline of liberal education is often attributed to mobilization during the Second World War.
Thomas Henry Huxley, the initiator of the X Club, c. 1880. The X Club was a dining club of nine men who supported the theories of natural selection and academic liberalism in late 19th-century England. Thomas Henry Huxley was the initiator; he called the first meeting for 3 November 1864. [1]
[1] [2] The building of the college in Edmund Street, Birmingham was designed by Jethro Cossins [3] and opened on 1 October 1880 and was marked by a speech by Thomas Henry Huxley. [4] In the speech, Huxley considered the opening of the college as a victory for scientific cause and supported Mason's antagonistic views on the classics and theology.
The idea of the Harvard Classics was presented in speeches by then President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University. [1] Several years prior to 1909, Eliot gave a speech in which he remarked that a three-foot shelf would be sufficient to hold enough books to give a liberal education to anyone who would read them with devotion.
On a Piece of Chalk was a lecture given by Thomas Henry Huxley on 26 August 1868 [1] to the working men of Norwich during a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. [2] It was published as an essay in Macmillan's Magazine in London later that year.
F. D. Maurice, founder of the Working Men's College. Founded in 1854 the college was established in Oakley Square by Christian Socialists to provide for Victorian skilled artisans a liberal education, with its ethical focus countering what its founders saw as failings and corruption in the practices of trade self-help associations of the time.
Huxley said that it died "of too much love"; Tennyson, "because after ten years of strenuous effort no one had succeeded in even defining metaphysics." According to Dean Stanley, "We all meant the same thing if we only knew it."