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There's a pretty good piece about Huxley here:

The Huxley File - A Sort of Firm
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/guide3.html
I won't be able to view this for a while - no video support. But I'll try to take a look at it when I get access to another machine.
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Linear, in regard to your comments, sometimes people do things not because they feel ever so innately deeply that it is the right thing to do, but because the world around them tells them it is the right thing to do, because Mama tells them it is so, because Grandpa tells them it is so, and/or because they learn it in school and emulate the behaviors of those around them (and of course, to make money, acquire wealth), simply to fit in.
Approaching pragmatism.

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There's a brief page on contemporary authors of the 19th century within a piece about Jack London, here, that is worth a read as well:
http://london.sonoma.edu/Essays/philosophy.html
I may drag Mark Twain in for inspection. He used to be one of my favorite authors. I collected most of his work, and this led me to the lesser-known trash he wrote in later years when he "came out" as an enemy of God. Reviewing, I found a lot of his opinions were subtly present in earlier work as well.

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As that page points out, Herbert Spencer drew upon Darwin's work as social Darwinism.
Spencer's on my 'to do list'. I found where he was on good terms with Carnagie and other robber barons, and I was looking into the money angles. Other things came up, and I may just skip the money & look after his doctrines - much easier to research. I found many references to his trip to America, but no specifics.

Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth

"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case
http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm

"To Compel A Man To Furnish Funds For The Propagation Of Ideas He Disbelieves And Abhors Is Sinful And Tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson

"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?" - Thomas Jefferson