Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish… — Adrian Desmond Absence Copy Share Image
Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck'… — Adrian Desmond Admirable Copy Share Image
A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never… — Adrian Desmond Creeds Copy Share Image
William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days… — Adrian Desmond Christianity Copy Share Image