Did Lady Brewster faint?
Eric Korn, 24 April 1997
Huxley: Evolution’s High Priest
by Adrian Desmond.
Joseph, 372 pp., £20, March 1997,0 7181 3882 1 Show More
by Adrian Desmond.
Joseph, 372 pp., £20, March 1997,
“... of the battle in friends’ albums – I have seen two – but not until twenty years later. Did Lady Brewster faint? Did Fitzroy wave his Bible like a flail? Did Hooker save the day for progress when Huxley couldn’t speak for temper? (Hooker thought so.) Did Huxley murmur: ‘the Lord hath delivered him into my hand?’ (Huxley thought so.) And Samuel ... ”