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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.
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origin of species seems to me always the most fundamental question, decisive for the worldview of those who draw this question not from metaphysical speculations but from the data of the objective world. In saying this, I would not at all think of throwing a shadow on the lawfulness and credibility of metaphysical thinking, but propose only that it must not consist of only a formal dialectical progression of thought, but must be based upon the most positive data: simply put, it must serve not as
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F1548.1
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Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1
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, without design or purpose. The whole question seems to me insoluble, for I cannot put much or any faith in the so-called intuitions of the human mind, which have been developed, as I cannot doubt, from such a mind as animals possess; and what would their convictions or intuitions be worth? There are a good many points on which I cannot quite follow Mr. Graham. With respect to your last discussion, I dare say it contains very much truth; but I cannot see, as far as happiness is concerned, that it
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A237.2
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Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2.
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many persons who have never heard of these books who would greatly enjoy them, I will here quote the subject-matter of the second as stated in the last page of the first work, as follows: Before replying to the question with which we started the question, 'Whence comes Man, from Nature or from God ?' we must, I think, state what man is. As it seems to me, man is the highest development of the 'Power' called 'Life' a Power added, at a comparatively late period of geological time, to Powers already
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seem to imply that speciation has occurred through one or another mechanism. One can hardly expect the data to be so copious as to tell us that there was no period in which the populations in question were not isolated. In general, arguments for sympatric speciation, especially in animals with the usual type of sexuality, are based upon the theorist's inability to imagine a geographical isolation mechanism—a truly pretentious hypostasizing of ignorance. The sound way to evaluate the conflicting
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A1283
Periodical contribution:
Wyhe, John van. 2011. Was Charles Darwin an Atheist? The public domain review (28 July).
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on the question of his religious views, I turned to Darwin Online, an online repository of Darwin's corpus where it is possible to search the works by key term. Putting in terms like 'atheist' and 'atheism' I found what seems to be a previously unknown discussion of this question by Darwin himself. The passage occurs in Darwin's lengthy 1879 Preliminary notice to the English translation of Ernst Krause's biography of Darwin's freethinking paternal grandfather, the poet and physician Erasmus
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