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- Sales Rank: #10714505 in Books
- Published on: 1997
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- Binding: Hardcover
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Understanding not just the history of evolution
By Alan Venable
This very thorough biography not only describes the often astonishing twists and turns to our developing understandings of evolution in the years after the publication of Origin of Species (even Huxley, an ingenius and dogged scientist himself--and "Darwin's bulldog"-- didn't seem to really quite "get" some fundamental implications of natural selection. Also fascinating is the history this book gives us of the invention of "scientist" as an honorable paid profession in Britain in the late 19th century. According to the book, Thomas Huxley stood at the center of that crusade (so to speak) to make science an essential part of education and our working lives. Even after reading numerous books about Darwin and related folk, I come away from this biography with a much, much deeper sense of the complexity and slow and often quirky progress with which science has advanced.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Thorough but flawed
By Jay A. Frogel
While this is an extremely thorough and complete review of Huxley's life and work, I found several problems with the book. In brief, these include: A Hemingwayesque type of writing (short declaratory sentences) without H's style to pull it off. An overuse of adjectives by about a factor of three. Many sentences that, in spite of being short, were hard to disentangle grammatically. My most serious criticism of the content, though, is that the author stuck much too closely to a time-line rather than an idea or subject line. For example, he makes the statement, in several places, that finally Huxley saw the light and fully bought into evolution and natural selection as presented by Darwin. But he never seems to explain this: why the hesitancy and why the "sudden" conversion. There is too much mixing up of private life with scientific ideas. And no real counter is given to Huxley's antipathy to Owen whose work seems to be at least as long-lived as Huxley's (dinosaurs?). For my taste, a much more satisfying way of writing scientific biography can be found by reading Janet Browne's first vol. of a bio. of Darwin ("Coasting").
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
AN ENGAGING, DETAILED AND AUTHORITATIVE BIOGRAPHY OF "DARWIN'S BULLDOG"
By Steven H Propp
Adrian Desmond is an excellent science writer (e.g., Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist and The Ape's Reflexion). He wrote in the Introduction to this 1994 book, "'Huxley' is a contextual biography, for want of a better word: as often as not it looks up from street level to provide a fresh perspective on the people's scientist. At the outset my goal was to write it in a way that would humanize science and its history in order to make it accessible and interesting... it looks at evolution's use in order to understand the class, religious or political interests involved. It raises questions about new practices and new workplaces." (Pg. xiv)
He records, "Huxley sat in the pews of the cathedral. On Christmas Eve he watched the Catholic festivities, less with a sense of anthropological mission than with evangelical anger... The rationalist scorned this prostitution of human reason. To the young sailor priests and prostitutes were all of a piece, only standing on opposite sides of the sacred divide. At Mass the 'chanting' was 'of a most vile description.'" (Pg. 55)
Later, he adds, "For Huxley, the only way forward was a competitive, technocratic society, with the science professionals at the helm." (Pg. 211) He states, "Huxley's cadre was moving into power, but everywhere they met [Richard] Owen's imperious presence. What the scientific parvenus lacked in social strength they made up in moral posturing: hence Huxley's hallelujah, that finally 'the Lord hath given this Amalekite unto mine hands.'" (Pg. 231) He notes, "Huxley rallied Darwin... he sharpened his 'claws & beak' to tear at 'the curs which will bark and yelp'... Now Darwin was glad of it. Never one to enter the public fray, he needed a champion as Huxley needed a cause." (Pg. 260)
Of Huxley's famous encounter with bishop Wilberforce, Desmond records, "[Huxley] waited, stage-managing the event just as much. And when the shouts for him climaxed, he rose... [and said] 'If then, said I the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence & yet who employs these faculties & that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion, I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.' ... There followed inextinguishable laughter among the people, and they listened to the rest of my argument with the greatest attention." (Pg. 279) However, he admits, "Perceptions of the event differed so wildly that talk of a 'victor' is ridiculous... even Hooker thought that he had not managed to 'command the audience'..." (Pg. 280)
As far as Huxley's religious position was concerned, he wondered "What could he call himself? He was shifting power to an elite whose authority rested in right reasoning, not mythical realities... a cacaphony of voices proclaimed that they 'had attained a certain 'gnosis"'; like the second-century gnostics who professed sparks of divine knowledge. That night he came up with 'Agnostic.'" (Pg. 374) He adds, "Agnosticism helped Huxley elude his detractors. It presented the man of science as non-aligned; it deflected any inquest from his own axiomatic beliefs... And it allowed Huxley to take the offensive." (Pg. 389-390)
This excellent book will be of immense interest to anyone studying the origins of the evolutionary theory, and the debate concerning it.
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