THE ATHENAEUMOn the Reception of the ‘Origin of Species’Thomas Henry Huxley
Natural History
On the Reception of the ‘Origin of Species’
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textHuxley’s own account of how the Origin was received, written for Francis Darwin’s life of his father. He remembers his first thought on reading it, “How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!”, and the fights that followed. It is short, lively and entirely on one side.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 35 minutes
- Where to find it
- The Naturalist’s Cabinet
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #2089. In the public domain in the United States.