A32    Review:     [Huxley, T. H.] 1860. Darwin on the origin of Species. Westminster Review, 17 (n.s.): 541-70.   Text   Image

rendered to science, Kepler and Newton had to come after him. What if the orbit of Darwinism should be a little too circular? What if species should offer residual phænomena, here and there, not explicable by natural selection? Twenty years hence naturalists may be in a position to say whether this is, or is not, the case; but in either event they will owe the author of The Origin of Species an immense debt of gratitude. We should leave a very wrong impression on the reader's mind if we permitted him

A2455    Review:     [Hardwicke, R]. 1863. [Review of Origin and T. H. Huxley's lecture 'On our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature']. The origin of species. (Mr. Darwin and his commentators.) Popular Science Review, 2: 385-404.   Text   PDF

objectionable one as some one else whom he names) and his theory has pretty well dropped into oblivion, as it deserved to do. Put him on the shelf, and if persons tell you that Mr. Darwin is groping towards truth as he did, I won't instruct you what to think of their judgment, but will leave you to think what you like, and believe in Darwin. 'Darwinism, or nothing,' is my motto to-day-but, mind, I don't pledge myself to him, and should anything turn up to-morrow, that appears to serve our purpose better

A2455    Review:     [Hardwicke, R]. 1863. [Review of Origin and T. H. Huxley's lecture 'On our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature']. The origin of species. (Mr. Darwin and his commentators.) Popular Science Review, 2: 385-404.   Text   PDF

plate was not stolen by a burglar, who, I believe, did effect his escape in this manner, and in justice you ought to transport the man.) But we have not the space, nor is it needful, we think, to follow the author further in his reasoning. It may have appeared very clear to the working classes, but it has not satisfied us that there is no alternative between Darwinism and nothing. Perhaps as we do not ask our readers to bring the Baconian philosophy to bear upon this inquiry, the author will

A63    Review:     [Huxley, T. H.] 1864. Criticisms on "The origin of species." Natural History Review. n.s. 4: 566-580.   Text   Image

may bring into clearer light the profound opposition between the ordinary Teleological and the Darwinian conception. Cats catch mice, small birds and the like, very well. Teleology tells us that they do so because they were expressly constructed for so doing that they are perfect mousing apparatuses, so perfect and so delicately adjusted that no one of their organs could be altered, without the change involving the alteration of all the rest. Darwinism affirms, on the contrary, that there was

A63    Review:     [Huxley, T. H.] 1864. Criticisms on "The origin of species." Natural History Review. n.s. 4: 566-580.   Text   Image

by one which he terms the 'Theory of Heterogeneous Generation.' We shall proceed to consider first the destructive, and secondly, the constructive portion of the essay. We regret to find ourselves compelled to dissent very widely from many of Professor K lliker's remarks; and from none more thoroughly than from those in which he seeks to define what we may term the philosophical position of Darwinism. Darwin (says Professor K lliker) is, in the fullest sense of the word, a Teleologist, He says

A604    Review:     Lewes, George Henry. 1868. Mr. Darwin's hypotheses. Fortnightly Review n.s. 3 (April, June); 353-73, 611-28, 4 (July), (November): 61-80, 492-509.   Text   Image

arguments on one side than on the other; and that, in consequence of this native bias, we may generally predict what will be his views in Religion, Philosophy, and Art to a great extent even in Science. Be this as it may, there can be little doubt that the acceptance or the rejection of Darwinism has, in the vast (1) Robinet, De la Nature, Amst. 1766. (I gave an analysis of this book in Fraser's Magazine, Nov., 1857.) [page] 35

A606    Review:     [Dallas, William Sweetland?]. 1868. [Review of] Variation of animals and plants under domestication. Westminster Review n.s. 35 (January): 207-27.   Text   Image

as having taken place, Lamarck on the other hand places his theory on a higher standpoint than that occupied by Mr. Darwin in his first essay, by the recognition of a general law governing the whole of the changes assumed by him, a deficiency in his theory which is supplied by Mr. Darwin in the work now under consideration, by his hypothesis of Pangenesis, to which we shall have to advert hereafter. Another objection to Darwinism, and one which presses with great force on the minds of those who

A887    Review:     Pye-Smith, P. H. 1871. [Review of Descent]. Nature 3 (6 April): 442-445; (part 2): (13 April): 463-465.   Text   Image

of Abiogenesis has recently been discussed, the reticence shown in avoiding allusion to the subject is perhaps the most remarkable among the many remarkable characters of this great work. P. H. PYE-SMITH ... Essays on Darwinism. By J. R. R. Stebbing. (Longmans and Co., 1871.) MR. DARWIN, in his recent work, very truly observes that false facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but that false theories are comparatively innocuous. Mr. Stebbing's work

A1175    Review:     Ripley, G. 1871. [Review of] Descent of man: Darwinism. Appleton's Journal, 5, (25 March): 350-2.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 350 DARWINISM. THE great interest excited by Mr. Darwin's latest work, The Descent of Man, induces us to copy, from the New York Tribune, the following clear and concise summary of its argument, and of Darwinism generally, written by Mr. George Ripley: Not a little curiosity bas been awakened with regard to the contents of the present work, the purpose of which is to apply the principles of Natural Selection to the explanation of the origin or

A1177    Review:     Anon. 1871. [Review of] The descent of man. The Daily Evening Telegraph (Philadelphia), (17 March), p.6.   Text   PDF

a more promising member of society than some of the humans with whom we are acquainted, and might put to shame some of his presumably more intellectual relatives. Mr. Darwin's theories with regard to natural selection have been adopted by many of the scientific men of the present day, and the arguments and facts contained in the volume before us will tend to confirm the believers in Darwinism, even if they do not convert its opponents. Whatever opinions may be held with regard to Mr. Darwin's

A1176    Review:     Anon. 1871. [Review of] The descent of man. The Chicago Tribune (9 April), p.1.   Text   PDF

, as inexplicable as the reign of life over organized beings Whence come life and law? Darwinism may trace some of their effects. But these two great causes remain as mysterious as ever, or, in the religious sense, as manifest as ever the soul of God in nature. Whatever will explain the existence will not only clear up the process of creation, but all the problems of our spiritual being. The truly scientific position which every writer on cosmogony and physical science should assume, is taken by

A2183    Review:     Anon. 1872. [Review of Origin]. Darwin's Origin of Species. The Garden, 1 (4 May): 519.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 519 DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES. * We have to record and to welcome the appearance of a new and cheap edition of this remarkable and most interesting book. It is needless to say anything in reference to its object now, as, since the appearance of the work originally, the chief ideas which it contains have been fully discussed. Few will deny (except perhaps those who discuss what they call Darwinism, without having read the book, and such people

A59    Review:     Adams, L. T. 1874. Mr. Darwin and the theory of natural selection. New Englander (Issue 129, October) 33: 741-770.   Text   Image

His first hint here came from a work, nearly obsolete not so many years ago, but now returning to celebrity on the flood tide of Darwinism, the Essay of Malthus on the Principles of Population. It is certain that all living beings multiply in a geometrical progression, with a varying ratio which, however, is high in the slowest breeders. The successive additions of each generation to the numbers of any race would suffice, if unchecked, to stock the whole world in a few centuries, or even in

A1691    Review:     Thomatis, D. 1875. [Review of Insectivorous plants]. Telegraph (Brisbane), (29 September): 3.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 3 CARNIVOROUS PLANTS AND DARWINISM. MR. CHARLES DARWIN has lately published a new work on his theory of the Species, entitled Insectivorous Plants, about which he has been engaged these three or four years. This time our illustrious naturalist has expounded his theory by treating of those plants which, through the perfection of their organs, he considers as the link between the vegetable and animal kingdoms. There are different species of such

A2775    Review:     Anon. 1878. [Review of Expression]. Cosmos les Mondes 46: 55.   Text   PDF

considérations nouvelles l'hypothése de l'évolution et de la descendance de l'homme d'une forme animale, et il s'applaudit d'avoir réussi. Que bien lui en fasse. Mais l'évolution a déjà assez évolué elle-méme pour étre bientot arrivée à l'absurde! [In his article: Darwinism and the expression of emotions in man, Father Lecomte exposes as best he can the three hazardous sources that the illustrious English naturalist assigns to the mimic expression of emotions: the association of useful habits

A2220    Review:     Gray, Asa. 1878. [Review of Forms of flowers]. Darwin's botanical studies. The Independent, 30 (10 January): 11-12.   Text   PDF

this, in particular, is filled with statistics and tables and numerical details, and the topic is too remotely associated with what is called Darwinism to derive an adventitious interest from the Origin of Species and the Descent of Man. But it has an interest and a value of its own—one which is shared by two preceding works of Mr. Darwin, which should be reckoned in the series—that on climbing and that on insectivorous plants. While Darwin's other and more famous works have opened new channels

A1500    Review:     Anon. 1880. [Review of Erasmus Darwin]. New England Farmer (6 March): 2.   Text   PDF

grandson, and known all over the world, as Darwinism

A116    Review:     Anon. 1868. [Review of] The Variation of animals and plants under domestication. The American Naturalist 2 (10) (December) 547-553.   Text   Image

latitude is given, the varying forms thus supposed to have a common ancestry are strong supporters of Darwin, and his laws of inherited variability. It is, perhaps, this uncertainty, and the desire of almost all minds of the nineteenth century, to look for secondary causes, whose modes of action may be determined by experiment, rather than to refer to the direct interposition of the Creator, that has caused so many converts to Darwinism. The present volumes are, besides their value to the

A2098    Review:     Danilevskii, Nikolai. 1885. [Review of Origin] Vvedenie. Darvinizm, Kriticheskoe issledovanie ["Introduction." Darwinism, A Critical Investigation] 1, St. Petersburg, pp. 44-82. Translated by Stephen M. Woodburn.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [Danilevskii]                 The necessity of an open inquiry into the teachings of Darwin. What the name Darwinism means. It is a particular philosophical worldview. The accidental trait as the highest universal principle. Darwinism is the only possible support of the materialistic worldview, even though Darwin himself was a deist. The dual problem of his teaching. The elimination of teleology is the main reason for the success of Darwin's theory