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A240 Periodical contribution: Gulick, Addison. 1922. Charles Darwin, the Man. The Scientific Monthly 15 (2) (August): 132-143. Text Image

degree of dissatisfaction with the orthodox theory of species as independently created entities. Von Baer, in Germany, was definitely of the opinion that some form of evolution through descent would have to be accepted. Finally came Wallace's paper, independently propounding the theory of natural selection, which as is so well known was read at a meeting of the Linneau Society jointly with a brief preliminary paper by Darwin, in the summer of 1858. Suppose now that the great series of

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

DARWIN AND THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION [page 4

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

Fenton, Carroll Lane. [1924]. Darwin and the theory of evolution. Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius. [front cover] LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. 568 Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius Darwin and the Theory of Evolution Carroll Lane Fenton [page 1

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

LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO.568 Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius Darwin and the Theory of Evolution Carroll Lane Fenton HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY GIRARD, KANSAS [page 2

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A555 Book: Shipley, A. E. [1924]. Charles Darwin (1809-1882). In Cambridge Cameos. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 118-147. Text Image PDF

of that evolution which since the time of the Greeks has been at the back of men's minds. It thus rendered the fact of evolution acceptable and even inevitable in the minds of all intelligent thinkers and brought about changes in our attitude to the organic world and indeed in our whole relation to life greater perhaps than have ever been produced by any previous thought of man. It has been somewhat shallowly said, said in fact on the day of the centenary of Darwin's birth, that we are upon very

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

CHAPTER III THE DESCENT OF MAN, AND OTHER BOOKS When Darwin wrote the Origin of Species he considered it as little more than an abstract or outline of the subject, to be followed by a series of larger books giving in full the evidence for evolution which the possessed. One of these, Variations of Animals and Plants under Domestication, he began on January 1, of 1860 less than six weeks after the publication of the Origin but could not get on with it very rapidly. This partly was because of the

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A555 Book: Shipley, A. E. [1924]. Charles Darwin (1809-1882). In Cambridge Cameos. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 118-147. Text Image PDF

to origins. No well-instructed person imagines that Darwin spoke either the first or the last word about organic evolution. His ideas as to the precise mode of evolution may be, and are being, modified as time goes on. This is the fate of all scientific theories; none is Stationary, none is final. The development of Science is a continuous process of evolution, like the world of phenomena itself. It has, however, some few landmarks which stand out exceptional and prominent. None of these is

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A555 Book: Shipley, A. E. [1924]. Charles Darwin (1809-1882). In Cambridge Cameos. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 118-147. Text Image PDF

that under the head of fluctuating variation we are dealing with two distinct phenomena. He holds that ''some of the so-called fluctuations are in reality mutations, whilst others are due to environmental influence. He thinks the evidence that these latter are transmitted is slender, and later states that Evolution takes place through the action of selection on these mutations. Where there are no mutations there can be no evolution. The disagreement about the way in which Evolution has

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

leave only their bones and implements behind; if suffering and struggle are purposeless and lead to nothing if this really were the teaching of evolution, then certainly it would be true that evolution debases man and destroys the hopes of mankind. But this is not true and it is not the teaching of evolution, but rather of pessimism and atheism. The blighting influence of atheism (with which Dr. Conklin seems to include agnosticism) is shown in just such conclusions as those mentioned, for it

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

INTRODUCTION Although eminent in the fields of geology, botany, and systematic zoology, Charles Darwin's chief fame rests upon his part in the development of the theory of organic evolution. For decades this theory was considered to be almost inseparable from the man and his work; even today there are thousands of people who know nothing of it except as it is associated with Darwin. Their conception of evolution may be true, it may be partly true, or it may be as false as the combined forces

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

DARWIN AND THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Darwin owed more to the early workers in evolution than generally is admitted, or he himself supposed. To an even greater extent he paralleled the work of his predecessors, many of whose books he had not even read. Thus even the theory of natural selection was published while Darwin still believed in special creation, although the mention of it was buried in a huge volume of timber suitable for naval construction. This does not

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A555 Book: Shipley, A. E. [1924]. Charles Darwin (1809-1882). In Cambridge Cameos. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 118-147. Text Image PDF

has recently reminded us that Darwin's disciple and expounder Huxley clung to a little heresy of his own as to the occurrence of evolution by saltatory variation, and there must have been frequent and prolonged discussion on the point. That little heresy has now become the orthodoxy of a number of eager and thoughtful workers who are at times rather aggressive in their attacks on the supporters of the old creed. That mutations occur and exist is obvious to every one, but that they are of

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

Aspalax and Proteus. In another letter he describes his work on evolution to Hooker, and adds, Heaven forefend me from Lamarck nonsense of a 'tendency to progression,' 'adaptations from the slow willing of animals,' etc! There is, of course, the possibility that by reading Lamarck, and noting his obvious errors, Darwin was stimulated to seek more facts, and better bases for interpreting them. When he first read the Zoonomia, the principal evolutionary work of his grandfather, he was not

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

, five years ago, have thought so. * This was the first time Darwin mentioned the subject to Hooker or for that matter, to anyone outside of his own household. But the great botanist neither groaned nor regretted the time he had spent in writing; instead, he accepted the earliest possible invitation to meet Darwin at his brother's house in London. After that Hooker frequently came to Down, sometimes alone, and sometimes in the company of other naturalists. After the work of evolution became well

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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

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

impetus of reactionaries who, dull as they are, perceive the extinction which threatens them and their kind, the war against fact is becoming more fierce than almost ever before. Perhaps the legal steps taken by the opposition will succeed for a time, at least; perhaps they will meet well-deserved failure. At any rate, those who are inclined to deny that evolution, mental or physical, progresses at an almost unbelievably slow pace, may do well to consider these facts: In 1923, sixty-four years

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

. Gradually sexual selection lost popularity, and in the reaction dragged with it the theory of natural selection. Indeed, though careful experiments in breeding have demonstrated too clearly for question the efficiency of selection, the part which selection, of whatever kind, played in evolution is far from settled. As Dr. A. F. Shull, one of the leaders among the younger zoologists of America, recently wrote, There is no marked inclination among leading biologists to attribute to selection in nature

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A489 Book: [Duff, Ursula Grant ed.] 1924. The life-work of Lord Avebury (Sir John Lubbock) 1834-1913. London: Watts & Co. [Darwin recollections only] Text Image

most men of science, Lubbock read an important paper on the embryological evidence for evolution.1 At an earlier age Lubbock had joined the Kent Artillery Militia, and performed all the duties with characteristic thoroughness. He played cricket, hunted with the beagles, went to dances and parties, and, in fact, enjoyed life In many ways. Whatever he did he took pains to do as well as possible. For example, when, later on, he was asked to play cricket for the House of Commons, in order to prepare

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A555 Book: Shipley, A. E. [1924]. Charles Darwin (1809-1882). In Cambridge Cameos. London: Jonathan Cape, pp. 118-147. Text Image PDF

in particular. The idea that it is fruitless to speculate about the evolution of species without determining the origin of life is based on an erroneous conception of the true nature of scientific thought and of the methods of scientific procedure. For Science, the world of natural phenomena is a complex of procedure going on in time, and the sole function of Natural Science is to construct systematic schemes forming conceptual descriptions of actually observed processes. Of ultimate origins

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F2753 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1924. [Correspondence with Francis Galton]. In Karl Pearson ed. The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton. vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 156-202. Text PDF

germ-plasm must lead to its simpler and simpler structure, especially in the case of unisexual reproduction. The course of evolution must on this hypothesis start with a highly complex germ-plasm and tend to break this up into simpler and simpler groups as generation by generation more elements are differentiated, i.e. organism differs from organism by having fewer and fewer common latent elements. We should see genera breaking up into species, species into local races, and ultimately races into