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A34 Book: Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image

The Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature THE COMING OF EVOLUTION [page vi

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A34 Book: Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image

Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [front cover] THE COMING OF EVOLUTION John W. Judd [front inside cover

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A34 Book: Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image

CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. Introductory 1 II. Origin of the Idea of Evolution 5 III. The Development of the Idea of Evolution to the Inorganic World 14 IV. The Triumph of Catastrophism over Evolution 20 V. The Revolt of Scrope and Lyell against Catastrophism 33 VI. The Principles of Geology 55 VII. The Influence of Lyell's Works 68 VIII. Early Attempts to establish the Doctrine of Evolution for the Organic World 82 IX. Darwin and Wallace: The Theory of Natural Selection 95 X. The Origin of Species

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A34 Book: Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image

CHAPTER IV THE TRIUMPH OF CATASTROPHISM OVER EVOLUTION THERE is no fact in the history of science which is more certain than that those great pioneers of Evolution in the Inorganic world Generelli, Desmarest and Hutton utterly failed to recommend their doctrines to general acceptance; and that, at the beginning of last century, everything in the nature of evolutionary ideas was almost universally discredited alike by men of science and the world at large. The causes of the neglect and

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A34 Book: Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image

introduced to the Greek philosophers, and from that time 'Catastrophism' found a rival in the new doctrine which we shall see has been designated under the names of 'Continuity,' 'Uniformitarianism' or 'Evolution.' How, from the first crude notions of evolution, successive thinkers developed more just and noble conceptions on the subject, has been admirably shown by Professor Osborn in his From the Greeks to Darwin and by Mr Clodd in his Pioneers of Evolution. Poets, from Empedocles and

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A34 Book: Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image

THE COMING OF EVOLUTION THE STORY OF A GREAT REVOLUTION IN SCIENCE by JOHN W. JUDD C.B., LL.D., F.R.S. Formerly Professor of Geology and Dean of the Royal College of Science Cambridge: at the University Press 1912 [page x

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uncompromising 'uniformitarian.' We are fully justified, then, in regarding the teaching of Hutton and Lyell (to which Whewell gave the name of 'uniformitarianism' as being identical with evolution. The cockpit in which the great battle between catastrophism and evolution was fought out, as we shall see in the sequel, was the Geological Society of London, where doughty champions of each [page] 2

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CUL-DAR139.11.1 Printed: 1910--1911 Material concerning H. Festing Jones's Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A Step Towards Reconciliation. Reviews, 1910-11, & correspondence, including: H. Festing Jones to F. Darwin; H. E. Lichfield to F. Darwin; W. E. Darwin to F. Darwin; L. Darwin to F. Darwin. Rough draft of a letter to H. Festing Jones from F. Darwin. Typescript of pamphlet by H. Festing Jones. Press-cuttings. Text Image

. Dr. Krause recast his article with Evolution Old and New before him, cut out much, and added much, taking certainly one important passage from Evolution Old and New, and apparently a second passage. He wound up with an angry attack on Evolution Old and New leaving the book (i.e. the altered article) as a pistol pointed at my head, but never (in consequence, no doubt, of Charles Darwin's request) mentioning it by name. -- November – Charles Darwin's Erasmus Darwin appeared, with the amended

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CUL-DAR139.11.1 Printed: 1910--1911 Material concerning H. Festing Jones's Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A Step Towards Reconciliation. Reviews, 1910-11, & correspondence, including: H. Festing Jones to F. Darwin; H. E. Lichfield to F. Darwin; W. E. Darwin to F. Darwin; L. Darwin to F. Darwin. Rough draft of a letter to H. Festing Jones from F. Darwin. Typescript of pamphlet by H. Festing Jones. Press-cuttings. Text Image

. Dr. Krause recast his article with Evolution Old and New before him, cut out much, and added much, taking certainly one important passage from Evolution Old and New, and apparently a second passage. He wound up with an angry attack on Evolution Old and New leaving the book (i.e. the altered article) as a pistol pointed at my head, but never (in consequence, no doubt, of Charles Darwin's request) mentioning it by name. -- November — Charles Darwin's Erasmus Darwin appeared, with the amended

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A34 Book: Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image

Principles, 123; first sketch of 1842, enlarged draft of 1844, commencement of great treatise on Evolution in 1856, interruption by arrival of Wallace's papers, 128, 129; the 'Abstract' or Origin of Species commenced, 130; finished, 131; reception of, 132-139; influence of, 1, 159 OSBORN, H. F., his From the Greeks to Darwin, 16; on Lamarck, 87 PALEY, his influence on Darwin, 108 PHILLIPS, JOHN, his attitude towards Lyell's views, 30, 71 Philosophers, on Evolution, 16, 82 PLAYFAIR, JOHN, his

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A34 Book: Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY WHEN the history of the Nineteenth Century 'the Wonderful Century,' as it has, not inaptly, been called comes to be written, a foremost place must be assigned to that great movement by which evolution has become the dominant factor in scientific progress, while its influence has been felt in every sphere of human speculation and effort. At the beginning of the Century, the few who ventured to entertain evolutionary ideas were regarded by their scientific contemporaries

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A34 Book: Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image

CHAPTER V THE REVOLT OF SCROPE AND LYELL AGAINST CATASTROPHISM THE year 1797, in which the illustrious Hutton died, leaving behind him the noble fragments of a monumental work, was signalised by the birth of two men, who were destined to bring about the overthrow of Catastrophism, and to establish, upon the firm foundation of reasoned observation, the despised doctrine of Uniformitarianism or Evolution as outlined by Generelli, Desmarest and Hutton. These two men were George Poulett Thomson

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A34 Book: Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image

'three more or less contradictory systems of geological thought,' under the names of 'Catastrophism,' 'Uniformitarianism' and 'Evolution.' In this essay, distinguished by all his wonderful lucidity and forceful logic, Huxley sought to establish the position that evolution is a doctrine, distinct from and in advance of that of uniformitarianism, and that Hutton and Playfair 'and to a less extent Lyell' had acted unwisely in deprecating the extension of Geology into enquiries concerning 'the

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A34 Book: Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image

Lamarck, Darwin expressed something like indignation, and he wrote to their 'mutual friend' Hooker, 'I have grumbled a bit in my answer to him' (Lyell) 'at his always classing my book as a modification of Lamarck's, which it is no more than any author who did not believe in the immutability of species90.' In this case, as is so frequently seen in the writings of Darwin, it is evident that he attaches infinitely less importance to the enunciation of the idea of the evolution of species, than to

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CUL-DAR139.11.1 Printed: 1910--1911 Material concerning H. Festing Jones's Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A Step Towards Reconciliation. Reviews, 1910-11, & correspondence, including: H. Festing Jones to F. Darwin; H. E. Lichfield to F. Darwin; W. E. Darwin to F. Darwin; L. Darwin to F. Darwin. Rough draft of a letter to H. Festing Jones from F. Darwin. Typescript of pamphlet by H. Festing Jones. Press-cuttings. Text Image

18 of the papers sent you would have led you to suspect that Butler was mistaken, but I do not mean to complain if this is not in any degree the case . I understood him to mean mistaken in supposing that Mr. Darwin had undertaken his book Erasmus Darwin because of or with reference to Evolution Old and New. Even in 1879-1880 when the events were proceeding I had suspected that Butler might have been mistaken in this and I therefore told Mr. F. Darwin so. I could not tell him that my suspicion

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CUL-DAR139.11.1 Printed: 1910--1911 Material concerning H. Festing Jones's Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A Step Towards Reconciliation. Reviews, 1910-11, & correspondence, including: H. Festing Jones to F. Darwin; H. E. Lichfield to F. Darwin; W. E. Darwin to F. Darwin; L. Darwin to F. Darwin. Rough draft of a letter to H. Festing Jones from F. Darwin. Typescript of pamphlet by H. Festing Jones. Press-cuttings. Text Image

18 of the papers sent you would have led you to suspect that Butler was mistaken, but I do not mean to complain if this is not in any degree the case . I understood him to mean mistaken in supposing that Mr. Darwin had undertaken his book Erasmus Darwin because of or with reference to Evolution Old and New. Even in 1879-1880 when the events were proceeding I had suspected that Butler might have been mistaken in this and I therefore told Mr. F. Darwin so. I could not tell him that my suspicion

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A34 Book: Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image

11; contrast of their views with those of Milton, 12, 13 Criticisms of the Principles of Geology, 68, 69, 70, 71; of the Origin of Species, 132-139 CUVIER, his strong support of Catastrophism, 31, 46, 50, 102 DARWIN, CHARLES, nobility of character, 3; his use of term 'Creation,' 11; on grandeur of idea of Evolution, 12; his devotion to Lyell and the Principles of Geology, 63, 73-75, 78; his horror of slavery, 76; opposition to Catastrophism, 77; opinion of Lamarck's works, 90, 91; on the

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A34 Book: Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image

help of Darwin, 97, 98, 99; opposition to Evolution, 27, 72 Heredity, early recognition of importance, 9 HERSCHEL, J., belief in Evolution, 12, 71; correspondence with Lyell, 83, 85, 183 HOFF, C. VON, influence of his works on Lyell, 49 HOOKER, J. D., friendship with Lyell's father, 126; voyage to Antarctic with Ross, 126; introduction to Darwin, 126; correspondence with, 127; assistance to Darwin, 126; advice to, 129; on origin of Australian flora, 139; friendship with Lyell, 79, 126 HUTTON

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A34 Book: Judd, J. W. 1910. The coming of evolution: The story of a great revolution in science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Text Image

posed infidelity and persecution of, 21, 22, 25, 69; Lyell's mistaken views on, 54; difference of his theory from Lyell's, 53 HUXLEY, T. H., early views on distinction of Uniformitarianism and Evolution, 23; later view of identity, 23, 24; influence of Darwin on, 24, 127, 144; on 1st edition of Principles, 67, 80, 81; argues for Lyell's belief in Evolution, 84; reviews Origin of Species, 136, 137; reply to Bishop of Oxford, 138; defence of Darwinism, 140; on Darwin's death, 147, 148; on

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CUL-DAR139.11.1 Printed: 1910--1911 Material concerning H. Festing Jones's Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A Step Towards Reconciliation. Reviews, 1910-11, & correspondence, including: H. Festing Jones to F. Darwin; H. E. Lichfield to F. Darwin; W. E. Darwin to F. Darwin; L. Darwin to F. Darwin. Rough draft of a letter to H. Festing Jones from F. Darwin. Typescript of pamphlet by H. Festing Jones. Press-cuttings. Text Image

Personally I should avoid too detailed criticism so as to avoid responsibility. Could not you say that you cannot take responsibility, because if you did you would have to allude to what seems to you his almost insane behaviour in starting the quarrel, and also to show that Father (may have) had some ground for annoyance in Butlers book on Evolution Old New, which justified his advising K. not to notice it. I should prefer this to asking him to put in any such sentence as that – suggested on p