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Insanity and depression run deeply in the skeptical Huxley family.Huxley’s father died in an asylum. His two brothers suffered “extreme mental anxiety” and “nearmadness.”Thomas himself had many debilitating bouts with deep depression, periods when he was unableto face the world and “a deadness hangs about me.” He was said to carry “a strain of madness inhim” and to carry on “lengthy conversations between unknown persons living within hisbrain” (p. 555).Huxley’s daughter Mady was troubled by mental illness for years, “prey to gloom and horrors,”before her death in her mid-twenties. She “hardly knew her three-year-old.” She died in nearmadnessand despair, “desperately wanting to believe in another happier world that shall makeup for all the cruelties of this” (p. 558). Her own father’s philosophy provided no comfort, nopurpose, no hope, no salvation.One of Huxley’s grandsons, Noel Trevelyan, committed suicide at age 25 and another, JulianHuxley, suffered six mental breakdowns.REVIEW QUESTIONS ON A HISTORY OF EVOLUTION1. Name three ancient philosophers who taught evolution.2. In what year did Erasmus Darwin die?3. What relation was Erasmus Darwin to Charles?4. Erasmus’ wife was _____________ in a religious age.5. Erasmus’ god was a _______________.6. At Cambridge Erasmus was deeply influenced by what philosophy?7. What is Deism?8. What did Erasmus’ coat of arms consist of and what did it mean?9. Without the doctrine of ______________, the doctrine of evolution would not be possible.10. What was the title of Erasmus’ popular set of books in which he preached evolution?11. Erasmus believed that everything has risen from an original ___________________.12. Erasmus called religion _____________ hope.13. Erasmus did not want to hear anything about _____.14. Josiah Wedgwood was the grandfather of Charles Darwin’s ______.15. Who was Joseph Priestley?16. In what year did Charles Darwin die?17. What were Darwin’s two most popular books?18. Charles’ mother was a _____________.19. Who was Robert Darwin?20. He hid his skepticism behind a public mask of ______________________.21. At Edinburgh University Darwin joined what skeptical organization?205