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Definition of Huxleyan
1. Adjective. Of or relating to Thomas Huxley.
Definition of Huxleyan
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to (w Aldous Huxley) (1894-1963), British writer. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Huxleyan
Literary usage of Huxleyan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of the State: An Introduction to Political Science by Henry Jones Ford (1915)
"The Huxleyan Position From the foregoing it appears that the evidence in all four
of the classes examined yields support to the Social Hypothesis. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"All the Huxleyan virtues are here in shining array—the Latin clarity and force
... But there is also the perfected bloom of Huxleyan pessimism, a graveyard ..."
3. Darwin and After Darwin: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a by George John Romanes, Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1895)
"I will call this the Huxleyan doctrine, because Professor Huxley is its most
express and most ... But it is less detrimental in its Huxleyan than in its ..."
4. The Baptist Quarterly by Baptist Historical Society (1875)
"... shortly to be adorned with a " print of the Huxleyan hoof," and to have the
impression repeated on every convenient occasion till it becomes permanent. ..."
5. The Last Link: Our Present Knowledge of the Descent of Man by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Hans Gadow (1898)
"In my opinion, this ingenious thesis—which I have called the Huxleyan Law, ...
If we accept the Huxleyan law without prejudice, and apply it to the natural ..."
6. The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paine (1896)
"... refused to pronounce anything impossible outside pure mathematics, rested
everything on evidence,) and really founded the Huxleyan school. ..."
7. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"Sociology and economics have passed beyond what the author calls the Huxleyan
position, and the genesis of language is far too shaky a foundation to build ..."
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