F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

incarnated itself for our redemption? I see no impossibility to God. Neither do I think He requires us to make out His nature clearly to our understandings, indeed Christ has told us we cannot, and I am content to wait. 1 Francis William Newman (1805-1897), brother of Cardinal Newman. The Soul was published in 1847. His views were unorthodox and he was eager for a religion which would include all that was best in all historical religions. [page] 12

F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

blessing it is to have one whom one can always trust, one always the same, always ready to give comfort, sympathy and the best advice. God bless you, my dear, you are too good for me. Yesterday I was poorly: the Review and confounded Queen was too much for me; but I got better in the evening and am very well to-day. I cannot walk far yet; but I loiter for hours in the Park and amuse myself by watching the ants: I have great hopes I have found the rare slave-making species, and have sent a

F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

you so, and to thank you for a dear letter I had from you now a fortnight ago. I keep all your letters and shall leave them to Bessy most likely, or Horace, and this last is missing in consequence of Harry's forgetting to return it. It is now a fortnight since I have been out of doors; it is so mild to-day that I think I shall try a little pacing behind the hedge. I do not know whether you touch C. Voysey's writings. I was pleased with his last discourse, Man the only Revelation of God. I do not

F1553.2    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1915. Emma Darwin, A century of family letters, 1702-1896. London: John Murray. Volume 2   Text   Image   PDF

in the world, 25,000,000 rising up and saying by the Almighty God we will put an end to these shams. He also talked of the frightful difficulty of rewriting the 1st vol. when the manuscript had been burnt; he said it was the hardest job he had ever had, that he had not a scrap of note or reference of any kind and it was like trying to float in the air without any wings, or some metaphor to that effect. He also said that he thought at one time that he should have gone mad with all the horror

F1592.1    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

another place: Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none can exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; . . . temples filled with the various 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 body. 1 In complete contrast to the forest, the bare, treeless, and uninhabited plains of Patagonia frequently crossed before Darwin's eyes. Why, he could

F1592.1    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

and them; for I almost think that Lyell would have proved right and I should never have completed my larger work, for I have found my abstract1 hard enough with my poor health; but now, thank God, I am in my last chapter but one. My abstract will make a small volume of 400 or 500 pages. Whenever published, I will of course send you a copy, and then you will see what I mean about the part which I believe selection has played with domestic productions. It is a very different part, as you suppose

F1592.1    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

nearly the same channel with myself. I hope there will be some little new to you, but I fear not much. Remember, it is only an abstract, and very much condensed. God knows what the public will think. No one has read it, except Lyell, with whom I have had much correspondence. Hooker thinks him a complete convert, but he does not seem so in his letters to me. But he is evidently deeply interested in the subject. I do not think your share in the theory will be overlooked by the real judges, as

F1592.1    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

my wife took the scarlet fever rather severely. She is over the crisis. I have had a horrid time of it, and God only knows when we shall be all safe at home again half my family are at Bournemouth. I have given a piece of the comb from Timor to a Mr. Woodbury (who is working at the subject), and he is extremely interested by it (I was sure the specimen would be valuable) and has requested me to ascertain whether the bee (A. testacea) is domesticated when it makes its combs. Will you kindly

F1592.1    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

clearly. At present I feel sick of everything, and if I could occupy my time and forget my daily discomforts or little miseries, I would never publish another word. But I shall cheer up, I daresay, soon, being 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 what I have said. I should rely much on pre-Silurian times; but then comes Sir W. Thomson like an odious spectre. Farewell. Yours most sincerely, CH. DARWIN. I

F1592.1    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

was a deliberate falsification. Huxley wrote to him on the subject and has almost or quite cut him in consequence; and so would Hooker, but he was advised not to do so as President of the Royal Society. Well, he has gained his object in giving me pain, and, good God, to think of the flattering, almost fawning speeches which he has made to me! I wrote, of course, to him to say that I would never speak to him again. I ought, however, to be contented, as he is the one man who has ever, as far as

F1592.2    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF

, if we knew, we should (as Tennyson said of the flower in the wall) know what God and Man is . The idea that cells are all conscious beings and go to their right places has been put forward by Butler in his [page] 10

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TO MR. F. BIRCH Sept. 12, 1907. Dear Fred, . For the last two or three months have had a hard struggle with Mars not the god of war, but the planet writing a small book, chiefly criticising Lowell's last book, called Mars and its Canals, published less than a year back by Macmillan, who will also publish my reply. I think it is crushing, but it has cost me a deal of trouble, as Lowell has also printed a long and complex mathematical article trying to prove that though Mars receives leas than

F1592.2    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF

the accidental modes in which the other side of evolution struck in upon his vision. They set him upon the other track and opened up to him the vaster kingdom of life which is without beginning, limit or end; in which perchance the sequence of life from the simple to the complex, from living germ to living God, may also be the law of growth. It is in the light of this ultimate end that we must judge the stumbling steps guided by raps and visions which led him to the ladder set up to the stars

F1592.1    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

chiefly founded on a consideration of all animals taken in a body, bearing in mind how common the rules of sexual differences appear to be in all classes. The first copy of the chapter on Lepidoptera agreed pretty closely with you. I then worked on, came back to Lepidoptera, and thought myself compelled to alter it, finished sexual selection, and for the last time went over Lepidoptera, and again I felt forced to alter it. I hope to God there will be nothing disagreeable to you in Vol. II., and

F1592.2    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF

describing his long musings, waiting the bidding of her whom God inspires Truth, who often hides her face from the clouded eyes of man. For hours, days, weeks, he was disinclined to work. He felt no constraining impulse, his attention was relaxed or engaged upon a novel, or his seeds, or the plan of a new house, which always excited his interest. Then, apparently suddenly, whilst in one of his day dreams, or in a fever (as at Ternate, to recall the historical episode when the theory of Natural Selection

A834    Periodical contribution:     Breitung, Amand. 1917. Overraskelser fra Abeteoriens og Udviklingslærens Omraade. Karl Schønbergs Forlag.   Text   Image

Kunst har hjulpet efter for at gøre de to muligst ens, hvad de nu absolut ikke er. Et særligt Pragtstykke er et Par Fortidsmennesker, tegnet af Gabriel Max efter Haeckel; ikke at glemme en god Del Fosterudviklings- Billeder, blandt dem ogsaa af Mennesket og forskel- lige Hvirveldyr, altsaa netop fra det Omraade, paa hvilket Haeckel har forøvet sine uforskammede For- falskninger! Altsaa den Mand, som af mange Viden- skabsmænd er bleven overbevist om gentagen dristigt Falskneri, som er bleven

A300    Book:     Darwin, Francis. 1917. Rustic sounds and other studies in literature and natural history. London: John Murray. [Darwin family recollections only]   Text   Image

DOWN, Jan. 24th [1868]. My dear old fellow, I am so pleased. I congratulate you with all my heart and soul. I always said from your early days that such energy, perseverance and talent as yours would be sure to succeed: but I never expected such brilliant success as this. Again and again I congratulate you. But you have made my hand tremble so I can hardly write. The telegram came here at eleven. We have written to W. and the boys. God bless you, my dear old fellow may your life so continue

A834    Periodical contribution:     Breitung, Amand. 1917. Overraskelser fra Abeteoriens og Udviklingslærens Omraade. Karl Schønbergs Forlag.   Text   Image

Barn og vel kendt i Bangkok. Hendes Forældre ser ud som alle andre Siamesere. Entreprenøren lejede Barnet, og Forældrene ledsagede det endog til Skibet uden at ane, at der nu i Europæernes Fantasi ogsaa paa deres Legemer skulde vokse Haar. I Bangkok har man allerede hørt om den Humbug, som blev drevet med Barnet i London; og det ærgrede mig straks, at Sia- meserne skulde le ad vor Lettroenhed. Altsaa, sandsynligvis en god Forretning for Entre- prenøren og absolut en Blamage for Darwinisterne^ det

A834    Periodical contribution:     Breitung, Amand. 1917. Overraskelser fra Abeteoriens og Udviklingslærens Omraade. Karl Schønbergs Forlag.   Text   Image

sine Bebrejdelser imod de Haeckelske Fosterbilleder. Men Forfalskninger , som Brass siger, vilde jeg ikke kalde dem, fordi Haeckel utvivlsomt har handlet i' god Tro. Hans Fantasi og hans Religionsstifter-Fanatisme*) lader ham se Tingene Saaledes, som han fremstiller dem. Det er unødvendigt her at ville afgøre, hvad der er det mest knusende i denne offentlige Kritik, den kompetente Fagmands Forkastelsesdom over Haeckels forfalskede Billeder eller hans Forsvar for Fantastens og Sværmerens gode Tro

A834    Periodical contribution:     Breitung, Amand. 1917. Overraskelser fra Abeteoriens og Udviklingslærens Omraade. Karl Schønbergs Forlag.   Text   Image

en god Del af Wieders- heims Rudimenter fra tidligere Tilstande ved Specialforsk- ningen er bleven erklæret for sygelige Dannelser (Forstyrrel- ser i et Fosters normale Udvikling, Entwieklungshemmungen ), jf. mit Abeteoriens Bankerot, Side 148 — 153 om Haarmen-* nesker , Halemennesker o. s. v. Men ved den hollandske Anthropolog Dr. Kohlbrugges nyere Forskninger om Atavismen er endog hele Læren om dette Tilbageslag i fjerne Forfædres Organisationsforhold bleven rok- ket. Kun for den kan

A283    Pamphlet:     Darwin, Francis. 1920. The story of a childhood. Edinburgh: Privately printed.   Text   Image

America? The most important quality about anything is always its colour. No. 39. August 13, 1879, Waterhead Hotel, Coniston. Mr Severn told me a nice child story. A little girl asked whether God had dinner, and on being told that this was not so, said, Oh, then, I suppose he has an egg for his tea. B. made a nice speech: we were wandering along and I found a rook's feather and gave it him to give to George to clean his cigarette-holder. B. said, What shall I say? Shall I say, 'Here's a feather

A260    Book:     Fenton, Carroll Lane. [1924]. Darwin and the theory of evolution. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius.   Text   Image

conviction of the existence of God and the immortality of the soul. . This argument would be a valid one if all men of all races had the same inward conviction of the existence of one God; but we know that this is very far from being the case. Therefore I cannot see that such inward convictions and feelings are of any weight as evidences of what really exists. The state of mind which grand scenes formerly excited in me, and which was intimately connected with a belief in God, did not essentially differ

A260    Book:     Fenton, Carroll Lane. [1924]. Darwin and the theory of evolution. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius.   Text   Image

Darwin began, as did most of us, by accepting literally the English Bible, placing a child's faith in an all-powerful and all-seeing God, who could create worlds or help small boys get to school in time, just as the occasion demanded. By the time he left Edinburgh he had progressed far enough to question some things in the creed of the Church of England, and this caused some hesitation when his father urged him to go to Cambridge and become a preacher. But even then he did not question a word

A260    Book:     Fenton, Carroll Lane. [1924]. Darwin and the theory of evolution. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius.   Text   Image

betters, knew. This was not extremely difficult; the old doctrine of theology was ready and, with a little remodeling, applied excellently. Evolution ceased to be a contradiction of God, and became merely his way of doing things. What Darwin himself thought of this idea, and the unreasoning dogmatisms to which it often leads, is shown in a later chapter, Darwin and the Gods. There were, of course, plenty of irreconcilables. The Catholic Church would make no compromise with fact, when that fact in any

A260    Book:     Fenton, Carroll Lane. [1924]. Darwin and the theory of evolution. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius.   Text   Image

limity; 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 consideration of the view. that the sun with all the planets will in time grow too cold for life, unless indeed some great body dashes into the sun, and thus