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Quotation by Thomas Henry Huxley
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A Liberal Education Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews (1870)Aphorisms and Reflections selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)from Reflection #114 selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)from Reflection #122 selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)from Reflection #228 selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)Related Subjects
religion (22) God (11) Jesus Christ (9) Bible (8) faith (6) morality (4) virtue (4) church (4) Communism (3)
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favor of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95), British biologist and educator. Reflection #146, Aphorisms and Reflections, selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907).
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