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OF the nine memorial lectures which have been delivered, the present volume contains only five. That by Prof. Joly on pleochroic halos does not even mention Huxley's name. Sir Oliver Lodge leads off with Huxley's own defence against the charge of materialism. “There is a third thing in the universe which … I cannot see to be matter or force, or any conceivable modification of either.” This was consciousness. Sir Michael Foster found in Huxley the “conviction that what began as a search into things physical has become a search into things spiritual.” Prof. Poulton points out that Huxley “never committed himself to a full belief in natural selection, and even contemplated the possibility of its ultimate disappearance.” We come, in the re-markable paper by Prof. Percy Gardner, to the pith of the matter, “in regard to which words from Birmingham are greatly valued, the study of the subconscious side of man.”
Huxley Memorial Lectures to the University of Birmingham.
With an Introduction by Sir Oliver Lodge. Pp. 164. (Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, Ltd., 1914.) Price 5s. net.
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Huxley Memorial Lectures to the University of Birmingham . Nature 95, 32 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095032a0
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