A man got up [after one of Huxley’s ‘sermons’] and said ‘they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before’. ADRIAN DESMOND AnythingBeforeGotHeardSemon
Dissolving the dross which had ‘encrusted’ Christianity ‘in the days of ignorance and superstition’. ADRIAN DESMOND ChristianityDayDissolvingDrossEncrustedSuperstition
Never ‘did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little’. ADRIAN DESMOND BeverCreedDim ScienceMereSeemVast
Science was tearing through the ‘fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs’. ADRIAN DESMOND CosmosEcclesiasticalFineSpunTearingThrough
Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion. ADRIAN DESMOND CaryleGreatestPerhapsReal
