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A861
Periodical contribution:
Spiers, William. 1882. Charles Robert Darwin. Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine 1882 (July): 488-494.
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applied by Herbert Spencer and others to self-consciousness, the growth of the moral faculty, the development of social institutions, and the belief in God; and to attempt to answer the question which is frequently being asked, as to whether it is possible to hold any views similar to Darwin's on the subject of man's origin, consistently with Christian faith and doctrine; but this would require considerable space. Let it not be supposed that we are about to make any effort to reconcile the ordinary
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A861
Periodical contribution:
Spiers, William. 1882. Charles Robert Darwin. Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine 1882 (July): 488-494.
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, from whom many have hoped for an utterance on a matter concerning which few would be able to speak with greater authority or with less of bias, has not yet dealt publicly with it in more than a partial and tentative manner. He has only given us the briefest indication of what views might be entertained by the Christian student of science on these momentous problems. He suggests that God interposed to give molecules; then vital force; then intellect, or soul, to man. He says: 'Man may have
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F1973
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. Mr. Darwin and revelation. Pall Mall Gazette (23 September): 2.
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. Wishing you well, I remain, your obedient servant, CHARLES DARWIN. Down, June 5, 1879. 1 Nicolai Alexandrovitch Mengden (b. 1862), Russian diplomat, student at Imperial University Dorpat, in what is now Estonia. 2 Darwin's letter was published in German translation in Haeckel 1882, p. 89. 3 Mengden wrote to Darwin on 2 April 1879 asking if a believer in his theory could also believe in God. A reply in the affirmative was written by Emma Darwin. Mengden wrote again stating that Haeckel disbelieves
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A1042
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Anon. 1882. Darwin's religion. The Narracoorte Herald (15 December): 3.
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conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me our chief argument for the existence of God; but whether this is an argument of real value, I have never been able to decide. I am aware that if we admit a first cause the mind still craves to know whence it came and how it arose. Nor can I overlook the difficulty from the immense amount of suffering through the world. I am, also, induced to defer to a certain extent to the judgment of the
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p. 47. A man who as no assured ever present belief in the existence of a personal God . . . can have for his rule of life . . . only to follow those impulses instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones. In Descent of Man vol. 1 p. 91 he says [blank] 1
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A234
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Aveling, E. B. 1883. The religious views of Charles Darwin. London: Freethought Publishing Company.
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and only when ignorance closed in his onward path was the supernatural invoked. It was pointed out that the Greek was privative, not negative; that whilst we did not commit the folly of god-denial, we avoided with equal care the folly of god-assertion: that as god was not proven, we were without god (ά ) and by consequence were with hope in this world, and in this world alone. As we spoke, it was evident from the change of light in the eyes that always met ours so frankly, that a new
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A234
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Aveling, E. B. 1883. The religious views of Charles Darwin. London: Freethought Publishing Company.
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and only when ignorance closed in his onward path was the supernatural invoked. It was pointed out that the Greek was privative, not negative; that whilst we did not commit the folly of god-denial, we avoided with equal care the folly of god-assertion: that as god was not proven, we were without god (ά ) and by consequence were with hope in this world, and in this world alone. As we spoke, it was evident from the change of light in the eyes that always met ours so frankly, that a new
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and only when ignorance closed in his onward path was the supernatural invoked. It was pointed out that the Greek was privative, not negative; that whilst we did not commit the folly of god-denial, we avoided with equal care the folly of god-assertion: that as god was not proven, we were without god (ά ) and by consequence were with hope in this world, and in this world alone. As we spoke, it was evident from the change of light in the eyes that always met ours so frankly, that a new
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were from the nausea exhaustion. I said, This terrible nausea still goes on. He answered It is not terrible, but it is nausea. He once said It is wonderful how I keep dropping off to sleep every minute. He kept lifting his hands to hold his rope then they dropped off with a feeble quivering motion, many times he called out Oh God Oh Lord God . But only as exclamations of distress I think. I cannot say how often he lay down but I do not suppose ever more than 5 minutes at a time. I kept looking
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A234
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Aveling, E. B. 1883. The religious views of Charles Darwin. London: Freethought Publishing Company.
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the supernatural generally, and to the god-idea particularly. Man had so much time, so much strength at his disposal. Whilst work was to be done on earth and for humanity, whilst Nature had so many of her secrets, so many of her methods still hidden in her maternal bosom, even from the children that nestle there, half terrified but all loving, so long the time, money, strength, the individual lives, the organisation devoted to aims other than natural, were wasted. Francis Darwin, sitting all this
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A234
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Aveling, E. B. 1883. The religious views of Charles Darwin. London: Freethought Publishing Company.
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the supernatural generally, and to the god-idea particularly. Man had so much time, so much strength at his disposal. Whilst work was to be done on earth and for humanity, whilst Nature had so many of her secrets, so many of her methods still hidden in her maternal bosom, even from the children that nestle there, half terrified but all loving, so long the time, money, strength, the individual lives, the organisation devoted to aims other than natural, were wasted. Francis Darwin, sitting all this
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the supernatural generally, and to the god-idea particularly. Man had so much time, so much strength at his disposal. Whilst work was to be done on earth and for humanity, whilst Nature had so many of her secrets, so many of her methods still hidden in her maternal bosom, even from the children that nestle there, half terrified but all loving, so long the time, money, strength, the individual lives, the organisation devoted to aims other than natural, were wasted. Francis Darwin, sitting all this
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A234
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Aveling, E. B. 1883. The religious views of Charles Darwin. London: Freethought Publishing Company.
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and maligned, the man at whose great discoveries they had sneered, they have had the audacity to say that the teaching of Evolution is wholly in accord with that of the Church and of the Bible. Only the two truly religious bodies have remained faithful to ignorance. The Roman Catholic Church and the Salvation Army alone have clung to god, and been deaf to the voice of science, charm she never so wisely. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford is of opinion that Charles Darwin is even now suffering
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A234
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Aveling, E. B. 1883. The religious views of Charles Darwin. London: Freethought Publishing Company.
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and maligned, the man at whose great discoveries they had sneered, they have had the audacity to say that the teaching of Evolution is wholly in accord with that of the Church and of the Bible. Only the two truly religious bodies have remained faithful to ignorance. The Roman Catholic Church and the Salvation Army alone have clung to god, and been deaf to the voice of science, charm she never so wisely. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford is of opinion that Charles Darwin is even now suffering
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sneered, they have had the audacity to say that the teaching of Evolution is wholly in accord with that of the Church and of the Bible. Only the two truly religious bodies have remained faithful to ignorance. The Roman Catholic Church and the Salvation Army alone have clung to god, and been deaf to the voice of science, charm she never so wisely. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford is of opinion that Charles Darwin is even now suffering the tortures of the damned. Mr. Booth, the demoraliser of
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A234
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Aveling, E. B. 1883. The religious views of Charles Darwin. London: Freethought Publishing Company.
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held the opinion that the Atheist was a denier of god. And his holding this opinion is in turn evidence bearing upon the second of the two statements just made. Very respectfully the explanation was given, that we were Atheists because there was no evidence of deity, because the invention of a name was not an explanation of ph nomena, because the whole of man's knowledge was of a natural order, [page]
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A234
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Aveling, E. B. 1883. The religious views of Charles Darwin. London: Freethought Publishing Company.
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as an orthodox Christian. The unscrupulous will probably quote this remark hereafter with a designed omission of the last seven words. But by a similar device, the Bible can be made to say that there is no god. I confess that a great joy took possession of me as I heard a statement by its implication so encouraging. I, like the rest of the outside world, was not sure as to his position in regard to religion. Now, from his own lips, I knew that before I was born this, my master, had cast aside
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A234
Pamphlet:
Aveling, E. B. 1883. The religious views of Charles Darwin. London: Freethought Publishing Company.
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held the opinion that the Atheist was a denier of god. And his holding this opinion is in turn evidence bearing upon the second of the two statements just made. Very respectfully the explanation was given, that we were Atheists because there was no evidence of deity, because the invention of a name was not an explanation of ph nomena, because the whole of man's knowledge was of a natural order, [page]
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A234
Pamphlet:
Aveling, E. B. 1883. The religious views of Charles Darwin. London: Freethought Publishing Company.
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as an orthodox Christian. The unscrupulous will probably quote this remark hereafter with a designed omission of the last seven words. But by a similar device, the Bible can be made to say that there is no god. I confess that a great joy took possession of me as I heard a statement by its implication so encouraging. I, like the rest of the outside world, was not sure as to his position in regard to religion. Now, from his own lips, I knew that before I was born this, my master, had cast aside
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held the opinion that the Atheist was a denier of god. And his holding this opinion is in turn evidence bearing upon the second of the two statements just made. Very respectfully the explanation was given, that we were Atheists because there was no evidence of deity, because the invention of a name was not an explanation of ph nomena, because the whole of man's knowledge was of a natural order, [page]
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as an orthodox Christian. The unscrupulous will probably quote this remark hereafter with a designed omission of the last seven words. But by a similar device, the Bible can be made to say that there is no god. I confess that a great joy took possession of me as I heard a statement by its implication so encouraging. I, like the rest of the outside world, was not sure as to his position in regard to religion. Now, from his own lips, I knew that before I was born this, my master, had cast aside
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A106
Periodical contribution:
Wallace, A. R. 1883. The Debt of Science to Darwin. Century Magazine 25, 3 January: 420-432.
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enabled to grasp fundamental principles, and so apply them as to bring order out of chaos, and illuminate the world of life as Newton illuminated the material universe. Paraphrasing the eulogistic words of the poet, we may say, with perhaps a greater approximation to truth: Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, 'Let Darwin be' and all was light. Alfred R. Wallace. [front cover
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F2531
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Darwin, C. R. 1883. [Letter to Doedes on Darwin's religious views, 1873]. Rutland Daily Herald [Rutland, Vermont] (23 February): 2.
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find it impossible to give a brief answer to your question. I do not know if I should be able to answer it if I should write a great deal about it. Thus much I can say, that the impossibility of understanding how this great and wonderful universe, besides our own consciousness, could have come into existence through chance seems to me to be our principal argument for the existence of a God; but whether this argument is of any value I have never been able to decide, for I know that, if we accept a
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'Anniversary address to Royal Society of New South Wales, 2 May 1883' Sydney: 17pp. Offprint.
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, if not in physical characteristics which cannot be bridged over, at least in moral attributes, and in the ennobling belief in God, by his power of forming that conception of the Deity which, to use Darwin's own words, is the grand idea of God hating sin and loving righteousness. 1
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'Anniversary address to Royal Society of New South Wales, 2 May 1883' Sydney: 17pp. Offprint.
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, showing that the fruitful doctrine of evolution, with which his name would always be associated, lent itself as readily to the old promise of God as to more modern but less complete explanations of the universe. Canon Liddon observed that, when Darwin's books on the Origin of Species and on the Descent of Man' first appeared, they were largely regarded by religious men as containing a theory necessarily hostile to religion, but a closer study had greatly modified any such impression. It is seen
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CUL-DAR200.3.39
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'Anniversary address to Royal Society of New South Wales, 2 May 1883' Sydney: 17pp. Offprint.
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truth as far as our reason allows us to discover it. I have given the evidence to the best of my ability; and we must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man, with all his noble qualities—with sympathy, which feels for the most debased—with benevolence, which extends not only to other men, but to the humblest living creature—with his god-like intellect, which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system—with all those exalted powers, man still bears in his bodily
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CUL-DAR140.3.1--159
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which my mother received his bore with him. My fathers need for strong feelings made him often use the milder kinds of strong language such as I wish to God, God knows. I suppose that as children we picked up a similar tendency, for a governess once confided in Aunt Elizabeth that we used very bad language, so that she hardly liked to repeat it; on being asked if she minded writing it down she plucked up courage and said that is was By George that we said used. See pg.8. After backgammon he
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that what he really was proud of was the money he had saved. His anxiety to save came in great measure from his fears that his children wouldn't have health enough to earn their own living. He took much pleasure in the money he made from his books. And I have a dim recollection of his saying Thank God you'll have bread cheese so long ago that I was rather inclined to take it [easy]. This fear that his children would not have good health comes in over and over again in his letters. D
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amusement how a set of musical friends used to make him and another equally unmusical man go in for a musical examination how they were puzzled by God save the King played slow quickly. Yet in spite of this want of ear, he had a true love of fine music and used to go every day to King's Chapel for the anthem. He used to lament that his love of music had become dimmed with age — yet in my recollection, his love of a good tune was strong. I never heard him hum more than one tune — Ar hyd a nos
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[He used to say] that what he really was proud of was the money he had saved. — His anxiety to save came in great measure from his fears that his children wouldn't have health enough to earn their own living. He also took much pleasure in the money he made by his books. And I have a dim recollection of his saying Thank God you'll have bread and cheese so long ago I was rather inclined to take it literally. This fear that his children would not have good health comes in over and over again in
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. Another important subject, Insectivorous Plants, began in holiday work at Hartfield elsewhere. He speaks in one of letters of his intention of working at Drosera as a rest from the 'Descent of Man'. The letters to Hooker of this period are full of expressions God forgive me for being so idle — I am quite sillily interested in the work c. The intense pleasure he took in Orchid understanding the adaptations for fertilisn is strongly shown in these letters. I have heard him 13
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that he had been attached to the Beagle, the old gentleman said Then I know who you are,— you're Bino the surgeon, — when he heard father's name he exclaimed, Why God bless my soul I've read you're books. He left shop without discovering divulging his own name. He drank very little wine, but enjoyed and was revived by the little he did drink. I have a recollection his saying Das ist gut after a glass of sherry. Bill Marshall1 reminded me of my father saying after a luncheon (probably after a
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A317
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Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.
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on the subject of slavery. Towards the close of the Journal, describing his last departure from Brazil, he writes— I thank God that 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 pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as child even to remonstrate ; and he adds, it makes one's blood
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A317
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Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.
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inspirational genius of a Newton, through which he was enabled to grasp fundamental principles, and so apply them as to bring order out of chaos, and illuminate the world of life as Newton illuminated the material universe. Paraphrasing the eulogistic words of the poet, we may say with perhaps a greater approximation to truth— Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, 'Let Darwin be,' and all was light.1 It was on the 1st of July, 1858, that the papers by Mr. Darwin and Mr. Wallace were
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A856
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Walford Edward. 1884. Greater London: a narrative of its history, its people, and its places, vol. 2. London: Cassell
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families. On the chancel floor are some finely-carved monumental slabs of the last century, one of them to a Mr. Meetkerke, Rector of Chelsfield, who died in 1775. On the north wall is a mural tablet bearing the following quaint inscription: Beloved; lamented; Rebecca Floyd, wife of Lieut.-General Floyd; victim of maternal affection: she nursed her fever'd infant in her bosom. One fate attended both. One grave contains the mother and the child. Almighty God receive their souls. Flavia Floyd died Feb. 1
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F1911
Periodical contribution:
Darwin, C. R. 1884. [Extract from a 1881 letter of Darwin and his unpublished notes]. In Romanes, G. J., The Darwinian theory of instinct. The Nineteenth Century no. 91 (September): 434-450.
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Darwin, C. R. 1884. [Extracts from Darwin's unpublished writings]. In Romanes, G. J., The Darwinian theory of instinct. The Nineteenth Century No. 91 (September): 434-450. [page] 434 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Sept. THE DARWINIAN THEORY OF INSTINCT. 'GAVEST thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them….Because God
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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 with the vital forces, tending, in the course of
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A2098
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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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contemplating the greatness of God. Often the questions posed were completely preposterous, and thus the answers could not be reasonable. So one anatomist asked, why does the human not have two spines, and answered, because that would look funny. In that spirit, though not always so astounding for the preposterous conclusions, were written various works of entomo-teleology, ichthyo-teleology, litho-teleology, and testaceo-teleology, or expositions of the wisdom of God, proven by insects, fish, stones, and
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A76
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Cunningham, Joseph Thomas. 1886. Charles Darwin, naturalist. The Round Table series. Edinburgh: William Brown.
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. Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, Hold you here, root and all in my hand. Little flower but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. J. T. CUNNINGHAM. [page 33
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CUL-DAR134.3
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'Charles Darwin' [Edinburgh, Brown (Round Table Series no 5)]: 32pp
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. Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, Hold you here, root and all in my hand. Little flower- but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. J. T. CUNNINGHAM
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F1452.1
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 1. London: John Murray.
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what a steady and sober frame of mind I was in. But I find I am writing most precious nonsense. Two or three of our labourers yesterday immediately set to work, and got most excessively drunk in honour of the arrival of Master Charles. Who then shall gainsay if Master Charles himself chooses to make himself a fool. Good-bye. God bless you! I hope you are as happy, but much wiser, than your most sincere but unworthy philosopher, CHAS. DARWIN. [page 272
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these was sent in 1873 to N. D. Deedes, a Dutch gentleman, who wrote to ask Darwin his opinion on the existence of a God: It is impossible to answer your question briefly; I am not sure that I could do so even if I wrote at some length. But I may say that the impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me our chief argument for the existence of God; but whether this is an argument of real value, I have never been
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F1452.1
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 1. London: John Murray.
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answered by a member of my father's family, who wrote: Mr. Darwin begs me to say that he receives so many letters, that he cannot answer them all. He considers that the theory of Evolution is quite compatible with the belief in a God; but that you must remember that different persons have different definitions of what they mean by God. This, however, did not satisfy the German youth, who again wrote to my father, and received from him the following reply: I am much engaged, an old man, and out of
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F1452.3
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 3. London: John Murray.
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by the direct inspiration of the Spirit of God. That God is a personal and Infinitely good Being. That the effect of the action of the Spirit of God on the brain of man is especially a moral effect. And that each individual man has within certain limits a power of choice as to how far he will yield to his hereditary animal impulses, and how far he will rather follow the guidance of the Spirit, who is educating him into a power of resisting those impulses in obedience to moral motives? The reason
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F1452.1
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 1. London: John Murray.
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excited in me, and which was intimately connected with a belief in God, did not essentially differ from that which is often called the sense of sublimity; and however difficult it may be to explain the genesis of this sense, it can hardly be advanced as an argument for the existence of God, any more than the powerful though vague and similar feelings excited by music. With respect to immortality, nothing shows me [so clearly] how strong and almost instinctive a belief it is, as the
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F1452.3
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 3. London: John Murray.
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Spectator, and with a new explanation, either by the Duke or the reviewer (I could not make out which), of rudimentary organs, namely, that economy of labour and material was a great guiding principle with God (ignoring waste of seed and of young monsters, c.), and that making a new plan for the structure of animals was thought, and thought was labour, and therefore God kept to a uniform plan, and left rudiments. This is no exaggeration. In short, God is a man, rather cleverer than us. . . . I
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was aboriginally endowed with the ennobling belief in the existence of an omnipotent God. On the contrary, evidence proves that there are and have been numerous races without gods and without words to express the idea. The question, he says, is wholly distinct from that higher one, whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the universe; and this has been answered in the affirmative by the highest intellects that have ever lived. The fact of races existing without a belief in a god is shown
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F1452.1
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 1. London: John Murray.
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the terms Agnostic and Atheist were practically equivalent that an atheist is one who, without denying the existence of God, is without God, inasmuch as he is unconvinced of the existence of a Deity. My father's replies implied his preference for the unaggressive attitude of an Agnostic. Dr. Aveling seems (p. 5) to regard the absence of aggressiveness in my father's views as distinguishing them in an unessential manner from his own. But, in my judgment, it is precisely differences of this kind
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F1452.2
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 2. London: John Murray.
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pigeon has not varied because the goose has not, though more anciently domesticated, and no good reason can be assigned why it has not produced many varieties. . I never knew the newspapers so profoundly interesting. North America does not do England justice; I have not seen or heard of a soul who is not with the North. Some few, and I am one of them, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade against slavery. In the long-run, a million
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F1452.3
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 3. London: John Murray.
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cannot possibly hunt through all my references for isolated points, it would take me three weeks of intolerably hard work. I wish I had your power of arguing clearly. At present I feel sick of everything, and if I could occupy my time and forget my daily discomforts, or rather miseries, I would never publish another word. But I shall cheer up, I dare say, soon, having only just got over a bad attack. Farewell; God knows why I bother you about myself. I can say nothing more about missing-links than
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