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THIS brilliant book, though somewhat disfigured by overlapping and repetition in certain parts, is one of the most suggestive and enlightening works for the popularisation of science which have appeared for a long time. It covers a wide field, and Mr. Huxley shows himself in it a man of wide interests, many parts, and an easy and attractive style of writing. He has two serious articles, covering much the same ground, on a new rationalistic conception of God; a sound and careful survey of the relations of biology and sociology; a charming essay, full of careful observation, on the manifestation of emotion in birds; a light satirical discourse called “Philosophic Ants” on the relativity of our conceptions, two admirable discussions on sex psychology and on the biological approach to progress, and last, but not least, seven sonnets introductory to each chapter. They are quite good sonnets too.
Essays of a Biologist.
By Julian Huxley. Pp. xv + 306. (London: Chatto and Windus, 1923.) 7s. 6d. net.
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MARVIN, F. Essays of a Biologist. Nature 112, 682–683 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112682a0
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