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  • See also Helfand M.S. T. H. Huxley's Evolution and Ethics: The Politics of Evolution and the Evolution of Politics Victorian Studies 1977 20 159 177 S. Hatton, ‘The Scientific and Philosophical Thought of T. H. Huxley’ (Lancaster University M.Phil. Thesis, 1982), 112–176.
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