Huxleyan
- a variation of Huxleian.
Example Sentences
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He gets into the Huxleyan logic behind giving people freedom in their private lives in exchange for limitations on public organizing and activism.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2012
Its basic theme is the Huxleyan conviction that world reform must begin in the individual soul, and that men may enter "the Divine Ground" of eternity only by a regime of selflessness and contemplation.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it is less detrimental in its Huxleyan than in its Wallacean form, because it does not carry the erroneous deduction to so extreme a point.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John
Yet Paine represents the turning-point of the historical freethinking movement; he renounced the 'a priori' method, refused to pronounce anything impossible outside pure mathematics, rested everything on evidence, and really founded the Huxleyan school.
From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason by Conway, Moncure Daniel
I will call this the Huxleyan doctrine, because Professor Huxley is its most express and most authoritative supporter.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John
