Science and Education

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SCIENCE & EDUCATION

ESSAYS
BY
THOMAS H. HUXLEY

PREFACE
The apology offered in the Preface to the first volume of this series for
the occurrence of repetitions, is even more needful here I am afraid.
But it could hardly be otherwise with speeches and essays, on the same
topic, addressed at intervals, during more than thirty years, to widely
distant and different hearers and readers. The oldest piece, that "On the
Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences," contains some
crudities, which I repudiated when the lecture was first reprinted, more
than twenty years ago; but it will be seen that much of what I have had
to say, later on in life, is merely a development of the propositions
enunciated in this early and sadly-imperfect piece of work.
In view of the recent attempt to disturb the compromise about the
teaching of dogmatic theology, solemnly agreed to by the first School
Board for London, the fifteenth Essay; and, more particularly, the note
n. 3, may be found interesting.
T. H. H.
Hodeslea, Eastbourne, _September 4th, 1893_.

CONTENTS
I JOSEPH PRIESTLEY [1874] (An Address delivered on the occasion
of the presentation of a statue of Priestley to the town of Birmingham)
II ON THE EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF THE NATURAL
HISTORY SCIENCES [1854] (An Address delivered in S. Martin's
Hall)
III EMANCIPATION--BLACK AND WHITE [1865]
IV A LIBERAL EDUCATION; AND WHERE TO FIND IT [1868]
(An Address to the South London Working Men's College)
V SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION: NOTES OF AN AFTER-DINNER
SPEECH [1869] (Liverpool Philomathic Society)
VI SCIENCE AND CULTURE [1880] (An Address delivered at the
opening of Sir Josiah Mason's Science College, Birmingham)
VII ON SCIENCE AND ART IN RELATION TO EDUCATION
[1882] (An Address to the members of the Liverpool Institution)
VIII UNIVERSITIES: ACTUAL AND IDEAL [1874] (Rectorial
Address, Aberdeen)
IX ADDRESS ON UNIVERSITY EDUCATION [1876] (Delivered at
the opening of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore)
X ON THE STUDY OF BIOLOGY [1876] (A Lecture in connection
with the Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus, South Kensington
Museum)
XI ON ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION IN PHYSIOLOGY [1877]
XII ON MEDICAL EDUCATION [1870] (An Address to the students
of the Faculty of Medicine in University College, London)
XIII THE STATE AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION [1884]
XIV THE CONNECTION OF THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES WITH
MEDICINE [1881] (An Address to the International Medical
Congress)
XV THE SCHOOL BOARDS: WHAT THEY CAN DO, AND WHAT
THEY MAY DO [1870]
XVI TECHNICAL EDUCATION [1877]
XVII ADDRESS ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF TECHNICAL
EDUCATION [1887]

COLLECTED ESSAYS

VOLUME III

I
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
[1874]
If the man to perpetuate whose memory we have this day raised a statue
had been asked on what part of his busy life's work he set the highest
value, he would undoubtedly have pointed to his voluminous
contributions to theology. In season and out of season, he was the
steadfast champion of that hypothesis respecting the Divine nature
which is termed Unitarianism by its friends and Socinianism by its foes.
Regardless of odds, he was ready to do battle with all comers in that
cause; and if no adversaries entered the lists, he would sally forth to
seek them.
To this, his highest ideal of duty, Joseph Priestley sacrificed the vulgar
prizes of life, which, assuredly, were within easy reach of a man of his
singular energy and varied abilities. For this object he