CUL-DAR10.2.(1-77)    Draft:    1857   'Natural selection' chapter 6 (On natural selection)   Text   Image

birds trains it to no particular course of life;—he selects a small dog or bird feeds it highly;—a long limbed animal exercises its fleetness only occasionally or not at all like the Italian greyhound. And lastly, to repeat, he can judge by external characters alone, not from the perfect action correlation of the whole organisation during the whole course of life.— See how differently Nature acts! By nature, I mean the laws ordained by God to govern the Universe. She cares not for mere external

CUL-DAR120.-    Note:    1838   'Books' [read] alphabetical catalogue   Text   Image

R Ray's Wisdom of God [Ray 1692] River's Rose Amateur Guide [Rivers 1837] Rennie on Peat — skimmed — [Rennie 1810] Researches Asiatic of Bengal Soc. 5 Vol (8vo) chiefly Sir W. Jone's, work reprinted from the 4.th Edition [Jones 1799a 1799b] Report Geological New York [D. D. O. 1844] Royle Prod. Resources of India abstracted May 41. [Royle 1840] Ramondi Voyage in Pyrenees nothing [Ramond de Carbonnières 1813] Richardson Fauna Americana 2 vols except fishes, which read if Yarrell does not

F2293    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. [Letters to and about Adam Sedgwick and the Origin of Species]. In J. W. Clark and T. M. Hughes eds., The life and letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick. 2 vols. Cambridge: University Press, vol. 1, pp. 380-1, vol. 2, pp. 356-9.   Text

secondary consequence of supposed, or known, primary facts. Development is a better word because more close to the cause of the fact. For you do not deny causation. I call (in the abstract) causation the will of God: and I can prove that He acts for the good of His creatures. He also acts by laws which we can study and comprehend— Acting by law, and under what is called final cause, comprehends, I think, your whole principle. You write of natural selection as if it were done consciously by the selecting

PC-Virginia-Francis-F373    Printed:    1859   On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. [Francis Darwin's copy]  London   Text   Image   PDF

and under domestication, in this particular manner, so as often to become striped like other species of the genus; and that each has been created with a strong tendency, when crossed with species inhabiting distant quarters of the world, to produce hybrids resembling in their stripes, not their own parents, but other species of the genus. To admit this view is, as it seems to me, to reject a real for an unreal, or at least for an unknown, cause. It makes the works of God a mere mockery and

F2293    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. [Letters to and about Adam Sedgwick and the Origin of Species]. In J. W. Clark and T. M. Hughes eds., The life and letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick. 2 vols. Cambridge: University Press, vol. 1, pp. 380-1, vol. 2, pp. 356-9.   Text

years ago laughing with Lyell over the idea. I have tried to be honest in giving all the many and grave difficulties which occurred to me, or I met in published works. I cannot think a false theory would explain so many classes of facts, as the theory seems to me to do. But magna est veritas and thank God, proevalebit. Forgive me for scribbling at such length, and let me say again how I grieved I am to have encountered your severe disapprobation and ridicule. Your kind and noble heart shows

CUL-DAR226.1.8    Printed:    1859.11.19   [Leifchild, J. R.] 1859. [Review of Origin]. Athenaeum, no. 1673, (19 November), pp. 659-60.   Text   Image   PDF

; and they have only erected an altar to an unknown God, while they viewed themselves as the valorous vindicators of the homage due to the common Father of all who breathe. Lady Constance Rawleigh, in Disraeli's brilliant tale, inclines to a belief that man descends from the monkeys. This pleasant idea, hinted in the 'Vestiges,' is wrought into something like a creed by Mr. Darwin. Man, in his view, was born yesterday he will perish to-morrow. In place of being immortal, we are only temporary, and

F2056.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. Het ontstaan der soorten van dieren en planten door middel van de natuurkeus, of het bewaard blijven van bevoorregte rassen in de strijd des levens. With a preface and an epilogue by the translator Tiberius Cornelius Winkler. 1st ed. Haarlem: A. C. Kruseman, 2 vols. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

Derhalve, dat niemand uit flaauwheid of nit schroomvalligheid denke of zegge dat een mensch te ver kan gaan in het zoeken naar waarheid; dat hij al te kundig kan zijn in het boek van Gods woord of in het boek van Gods werken; dat hij te groot kan zijn in de kennis van God of in de wijsbegeerte. Laat hij liever trachten in beiden eindelooze vorderingen te maken. Bacon. [page break

A19    Review:     [Wilberforce, Samuel]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species, by means of Natural Selection; or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin, M. A., F.R.S. London, 1860. Quarterly Review 108: 225-264.   Text   Image   PDF

, solid strata of the earth, and their dealing them out in such a way as to play the game of an ignorant or dishonest hypothesis not by shutting our eyes to facts, or denying the evidence of our senses but by patient investigation, carried on in the sincere love of truth, and by learning to reject every consequence not warranted by physical evidence.'† He who is as sure as he is of his own existence that the God of Truth is at once the God of Nature and the God of Revelation cannot believe it to he

A22    Review:     [Lowell, J. A.]. 1860. [Review of] Darwin's Origin of Species. Christian Examiner and Theological Review 68: 5, series 6, (May): 449-464.   Text   Image   PDF

In the fourth place, we should demur to the word accidental as applied to any object in nature. The very question at issue is prejudged by the use of such a term. We well know that it is often said that chance only means a cause not within our knowledge. And so it sometimes does. If we cast a die, we say that it is a chance which face will turn up. When, however, it is added, that, because God knows it beforehand, what is chance to man is design to God, there is a strange confusion of ideas

A1009    Review:     Tristram, H. B. 1860. [Review of Origin of species]. President's Address. (Read 29 March) Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, 4 (1858-60): 218-228.   Text   PDF

, we shall be led from nature up to nature's God. Gentlemen, I fear that my lengthened remarks have savoured more of the study than of the field, but the field has been so exhausted by my predecessors, that I have been driven, per force, in-doors. I have to congratulate the Club on the unprecedented accession of fifty-seven new members within the past year, not, however, unaccompanied by the mournful duty, of recording old companions in the walks of science removed by the hand of death, and among

F2056.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. Het ontstaan der soorten van dieren en planten door middel van de natuurkeus, of het bewaard blijven van bevoorregte rassen in de strijd des levens. With a preface and an epilogue by the translator Tiberius Cornelius Winkler. 1st ed. Haarlem: A. C. Kruseman, 2 vols. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

dat hij al voortlezende geleerd had in te zien, dat het een even verheerlijkend denkbeeld van God hebben is, te gelooven dat Hij eenige weinige oorspronkelijke vormen schiep, geschikt om zich zei ven te ontwikkelen tot andere en noodzakelijke vormen, als te gelooven dat Hij telkens eene nieuwe schepping moest doen ontstaan om de ledige ruimten te vullen, die opengevallen waren door de werking Zijner wetten. [page break

F380    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. New York: D. Appleton. New edition, revised and augmented.   Text   Image   PDF

simplest and oldest up to the highest and most recent, are, under the providence of God, the results, first, of an impulse which has been imparted to the forms of life, advancing them, in definite times, by generation, through grades of organisation terminating in the highest dicotyledons and vertebrata, these grades being few in number, and generally marked by intervals of organic character which we find to be a practical difficulty in ascertaining affinities; second, of another impulse connected

A15    Review:     [Bowen, Francis]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. North American Review. 90: 474-506.   Text   Image   PDF

innumerable periods in the earth's history certain elemental atoms have been commanded suddenly to flash into living tissues. But this is the whole extent of Mr. Darwin's concession. We may say of him what Pascal said of Descartes, It was his ambition, in his system of philosophy, to be able to do without God altogether; but he was obliged to suppose the Deity gave the world a fillip in order to set it in motion; after which there was nothing more for him to do. In like manner, on this theory, we

A253    Review:     [Morris, John.] 1860. [Review of] On the origin of species. Dublin Review 48: 50-81.   Text   Image   PDF

We should, however, be extremely sorry to leave the impression that we consider Mr. Darwin's book as empirical or unscientific. He has the misfortune not to believe in Adam and Eve, and he has filled up the gap thus left in his mind by substituting in their place some prototype of far more venerable antiquity, though it must be confessed, of rather a humiliating character to one who would fain believe himself as coming directly from the Hand of God a little lower than the angels; and he looks

F20    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy R.N. London: John Murray. Tenth thousand. Final text.   Text   Image   PDF

bones of horses which had been slaughtered as sacrifices. All Indians of every age and sex make their offerings; they then think that their horses will not tire, and that they themselves shall be prosperous. The Gaucho who told me this, said that in the time of peace he had witnessed this scene, and that he and others used to wait till the Indians had passed by, for the sake of stealing from Walleechu the offerings. The Gauchos think that the Indians consider the tree as the god itself; but it

F20    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy R.N. London: John Murray. Tenth thousand. Final text.   Text   Image   PDF

they themselves were not curious concerning earthquakes and volcanos? why some springs were hot and others cold? why there were mountains in Chile, and not a hill in La Plata? These bare questions at once satisfied and silenced the greater number; some, however (like a few in England who are a century behindhand), thought that all such inquiries were useless and impious; and that it was quite sufficient that God had thus made the mountains. An order had recently been issued that all stray dogs

F20    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy R.N. London: John Murray. Tenth thousand. Final text.   Text   Image   PDF

beings, especially the Serpul , have done good service to the people of Pernambuco; for without their protective aid the bar of sand-stone would inevitably have been long ago worn away, and without the bar, there would have been no harbour. On the 19th of August we finally left the shores of Brazil. I thank God, I shall never again visit a slave-country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when passing a house near Pernambuco, I heard the most

F20    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy R.N. London: John Murray. Tenth thousand. Final text.   Text   Image   PDF

my first and final landing on the shores of Brazil. Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of Tierra del Fuego, where Death and Decay prevail. Both are temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature: no one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his

F380    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. New York: D. Appleton. New edition, revised and augmented.   Text   Image   PDF

world, to produce hybrids resembling in their stripes, not their own parents, but other species of the genus. To admit this view is, as it seems to me, to reject a real for an unreal, or at least for an unknown, cause. It makes the works of God a mere mockery and deception; I would almost as soon believe with the old and ignorant cosmogonists, that fossil shells had never lived, but had been created in stone so as to mock the shells now living on the sea-shore. Summary. Our ignorance of the laws

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

development, and all their parts, in the adult state, are arranged according to the same plan. Man is more like a gorilla than a gorilla is like a lemur. Such are a few, taken at random, among the multitudes of similar facts which modern research has established; but when the student seeks for an explanation of them from the supporters of the received hypothesis of the origin of species, the reply he receives is, in substance, of Oriental simplicity and brevity Mashallah! it so pleases God

A57    Review:     [Jardine, William]. 1860. [Review of] On the origin of species. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. n.s. 11: 280-289.   Text   Image   PDF

the use of man, and his mind has been allowed to exercise itself and study certain conditions under which qualities in the animals are better associated with the wants he has. God in his goodness allows thus far, but he will not permit man to manufacture a permanent species, or to sport at will with his works; and this is proved by the fact, that none of those breeds or varieties (Mr Darwin's incipient species) can be maintained, even with the greatest attention and care. Most of out old

A512    Review:     [Church, W. R.] 1860. [Review of] On the origin of species. Guardian (London) (8 February): 134-135.   Text   Image   PDF

are by no means confined, and who indeed are mainly recruited from country lads. Their excellence induces us to notice a few blemishes that have caught our attention in perusing them. The words in p. 136 that our Lord resisted temptation only by His own inherent deity are surely both of questionable truth, and lead to a mischievous inference. Again in p. 172, in the effort to express intelligibly a very deep truth, there occurs the rash expression that God first sets Himself laws, and so cannot

A58    Review:     [Bowen, Francis]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin. Littell's Living Age. 66, Issue 848, 1 (April): 474-506.   Text   Image   PDF

supernatural, the continuance no less than the creation of existence, the origin of an individual as well as the origin of a species or a genus, can be explained only by the direct action of an intelligent creative cause, places the vital doctrine of the being and the providence of a God on ground that can never be shaken. We gladly borrow from Mr. Darwin the quotation from Bishop Butler which he has affixed as a motto to the second edition of his work: The only distinct meaning of the word

A48    Review:     [Duns, John]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of species. North British Review. 32 (May): 455-486.   Text   Image   PDF

through more faunas than one. The answer to both these statements, we believe, is contained in the remarks made in reply to the second objection. We conclude, then, that all geology testifies that species are permanent; that they have continued so under all varieties of influence; and that, in every case, they have been introduced by the miraculous power of a personal God, who is the Almighty and Omniscient One revealed to man in the Bible. Mr Darwin's work is in direct antagonism to all the

A48    Review:     [Duns, John]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of species. North British Review. 32 (May): 455-486.   Text   Image   PDF

study of it. But it is well that men's lives are often better than their principles, and their practice often far ahead of their theories, as was the case with that sage who, though firmly and consistently confident in the denial of the existence of a God, did not dare sleep in a room by himself for fear of the devil! Objections to the present generally accepted system of classification proceed on the assumption that a perfect scheme is possible. But it is forgotten that this implies not only a