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F1582 Book contribution: Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book] Text

behavior is inversely proportional to the role of intelligent thought. One can see that this point will create trouble for Darwin. It means that hereditary habit, his prime law of the evolution of mind, must itself evolve; it can do much work only when the power of habit is strong. When that power gives way to increasing intelligence, the evolution of mind must take another path. Darwin sees some such problem, for he says, lamely, that we cannot explain the faculty of reason as the outgrowth of habit

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F1582 Book contribution: Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book] Text

M Notebook, p. 74. Courtesy of Cambridge University Library. tive parental behavior in the evolution of morality. He uses the example of the earwig in both the earlier and the later comments on blind storge, i.e. instinctive parental affection for the young. (Descent, 106) The above views would make a man a predestinarian of a new kind, because he would tend to be an atheist. Man thus believing, would more earnestly pray . . . would be most humble . . . would strive to improve. . . . [M 74] pp

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F1582 Book contribution: Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book] Text

took up pigeon-fancying, his object was to come as close as he could to the experimental study of evolution, by breeding experiments. Along with his theoretical work, Darwin did an enormous amount of experimental work in many fields of science. In these notebooks we see that he had a number of ideas for psychological experimentation. Someday perhaps we will discover a notebook or a bundle of papers in which he wrote down the results. * He probably meant mental retardates. In fact, the ability

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F1582 Book contribution: Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book] Text

circumstantial, is (1) the paper has an 1838 watermark, (2) Malthus' postulates are alluded to (Darwin had read Malthus beginning September 28, 1838), and (3) he cites Macculloch throughout the essay, and he also cited Macculloch in the N notebook (p. 35) in a passage written between October 30 and November 20. The latter citation was almost certainly made after he had scanned Macculloch's book. In his Autobiography Darwin said he had determined, after having grasped the idea of evolution through natural

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F1582 Book contribution: Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book] Text

whatever takes place in brain, when sensation is perceived. [M 61 62] pp. 58 62 Darwin's attention seems to play almost rhythmically, first on one subject, then on another, returning to previously considered topics in the new light of intervening thoughts. These pages represent a kind of review with a few quick new insights. In two sentences he makes it fairly clear that his earlier remarks on the continuity between music and poetry do have a bearing on the evolution of language: It is known that

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F1582 Book contribution: Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book] Text

relativism. In his view, all men have some moral sense, although the particulars may vary from one group to another. Most important of all, the evolution of conscience is a natural consequence of man's being a social animal. Conscience is not something infused in man by a higher being. Morality evolves because it has survival value. He turns his attention to an article on consciousness. He is intrigued with the non-rational insanity, drunkenness, unconscious processes, double consciousness

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F1582 Book contribution: Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book] Text

about problems of evolution. Among the intrusions into his geological train of thought is the remark, The union of two instincts crossing most remarkable ?ever observed? shows that brain makes thought . . . Lyell, Principles, 1835, op. cit., Vol. 2, p. 465. [page] 325 The Notebooks on Man, Mind and Materialis

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F1582 Book contribution: Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book] Text

N Notebook Commentary by Howard E. Gruber Experience shows the problem of the mind cannot be solved by attacking the citadel itself. the mind is function of body. [N 5] . 1 5 Moment of truth. The N notebook is simply a continuation of the M notebook, and yet it comes at a significant moment in Darwin's thought. On September 28, 1838 as recorded in the D notebook, provoked by a suggestive passage in Malthus' Essay on Population, Darwin had his first clear insight into the principle of evolution

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F1582 Book contribution: Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book] Text

, and with the improved brain and vocal organs resulting from evolution up to that point, further associations of sounds and things can develop. The same ideas appear later in the Descent of Man in various passages on language, music, and speech. The remark on prayer seems to suggest that, although religious feelings are very remote from the simplest thoughts, a prayer may be thought of as an eloquent request and the ability to make such a request emerges from a growing power to think about absent

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F1582 Book contribution: Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book] Text

bodily structure . . . to obtain a certain end; intellect is a modification of instinct an unfolding generalizing of the means by which an instinct is transmitted. (N 48) In the next paragraph he feels a need for some philosophical justification of his method of reasoning. The thought is compressed but he seems to be saying that it is legitimate in science to look at extreme cases, in which the effect we want to study is magnified thus, to understand the evolution of mind in lower ani [page] 372

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F1582 Book contribution: Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book] Text

Darwin's first clear and great insight into the idea of evolution through natural selection, over two months since he stated his theory logically and succinctly as three principles, and also two months since he applied the theory explicitly to man. Nevertheless, he has not abandoned his earlier position that the inheritance of acquired characteristics can account for a large part of evolutionary change. The present passage re-states an idea now familiar to us habits acquired during the lifetime of

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F1582 Book contribution: Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book] Text

primarily instinctual, and in man primarily intellectual. The point is repeated on page 115 the evolution of the bee's instinct and man's intellect are equally wonderful. Instincts and learning. Typically, having for a moment made the distinction firm between instinct and reason, Darwin tries again to find the continuity between them. It will be helpful if instincts are amenable to some learned change. Darwin cites several examples fear and flight reactions diminishing in birds and rabbits as they

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F1964 Periodical contribution: Barrett, Paul H. 1974. The Sedgwick-Darwin geologic tour of North Wales. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 118 (2) (19 April): 146-164. Text Image PDF

Murchison and Darwin, are typical expressions of his moral outrage at supposed evil. His vanity, if in fact it was overbearing for Darwin, would now be understood, for when already middle-aged, he climbed those soggy, sphagnumcovered Cambrian Mountains, day after day, week on end, carrying a great iron hammer and a heavy leather collecting bag full of rocks. Speculation about thoughts and discussions which Sedgwick and Darwin may have had on the subject of evolution must be based on meager

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F1582 Book contribution: Barrett, P. H. 1974. Early writings of Charles Darwin. In Gruber, H. E., Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity; together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks. Transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, commentary by Howard E. Gruber. Foreword by Jean Piaget. London: Wildwood House. [Notebooks M, N, Old and useless notes, Essay on theology and natural selection, Questions for Mr. Wynn, Extracts from B-C-D-E transmutation notebooks, A Biographical Sketch of Charles Darwin's Father, Plinian Society Minutes Book] Text

ought to set it alongside the argument in the Descent of Man, written over thirty years later linking the courtship sounds of lower animals, the emergence of music in man out of these primitive tones and rhythms, and the evolution of language and poetry out of these sexual beginnings. One ought not to read the whole of Darwin's later argument into this one paragraph; it may be enough to say that he is here sensitive to yet one more of nature's continuities. In the next few paragraphs, castles

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A2063 Periodical contribution: Vorzimmer, Peter. 1975. An early Darwin manuscript: The "Outline and Draft of 1839". Journal of the History of Biology 8, no. 2 (Fall): 191-217. Text

first omitted item -from the pages of his copy of Lord Brougham's Dissertations,™ published in 1839 and finished by Darwin on February 7, 1840,2s we De Beer, Evolution, p. 42. Camille Limoges, La selection naturelle (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1970), pp. 104-105. Limoges has found in Youatt's book on the horse, read by Darwin in March 1840, the first recorded use by Darwin of the phrase Natural Selection, written at the top of a page and consistent with other markings made at the

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A2063 Periodical contribution: Vorzimmer, Peter. 1975. An early Darwin manuscript: The "Outline and Draft of 1839". Journal of the History of Biology 8, no. 2 (Fall): 191-217. Text

Darwiniana this would not, at first glance, seem at all puzzling. However, also in Volume VI one finds 35 pages of autograph manuscript, written in pencil, which constitute the published Sketch of 1842. This has been universally acknowledged to be Darwin's first sketch of his evolution theory. Darwin made several explicit references to this pencil sketch and indicated in his Journal that he wrote it at Maer and Shrewsbury in May and June of 1842.2 The manuscript of the Sketch of 1842 was long

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A2063 Periodical contribution: Vorzimmer, Peter. 1975. An early Darwin manuscript: The "Outline and Draft of 1839". Journal of the History of Biology 8, no. 2 (Fall): 191-217. Text

key aspect of his theory into a coherent draft-essay form. Further, the accompanying outline represents, both crudely and succinctly, Darwin's earliest synopsis of his evolutionary argument. Both documents would therefore be of considerable import for understanding the evolution of Darwin's thought. DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAFT MANUSCRIPT The manuscript consists of 14 sheets of foolscap white paper, without watermarks, measuring 8 X 13 1/4 (20.3 x 33.3 cm), attached to the first 14 sheets of what is

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A2063 Periodical contribution: Vorzimmer, Peter. 1975. An early Darwin manuscript: The "Outline and Draft of 1839". Journal of the History of Biology 8, no. 2 (Fall): 191-217. Text

, yet nowhere in this draft does he seem to recognize any negative effects or impediments to a selective process. In the Sketch of 1842, however, such effects are recognized almost at Gavin de Beer, ed., Evolution by Natural Selection (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959), p. 215. Life and Letters of Darwin, II, 146. Darwin, Autobiography, Ed. Nora Barlow (London: Collins, 1958), p. 47. [page] 20

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A668 Book: Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore]. Text PDF

, joins the fray and in a letter to the Scotsman she reminds readers that in no contemporary account of Darwin's death, in no obituary, in no local paper, nor even in the funeral sermon in Westminster Abbey is there the slightest hint that Darwin, towards the end, altered his views of religion or of evolution. Pat Sloan, in The Humanist of April 1965, tries to sort out the facts. There are various reports that Darwin encouraged his servants to attend services conducted by a certain Mr. J. W. C. Fegan

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A668 Book: Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore]. Text PDF

progress of evolution was displayed in murals starting with 4,500 million years ago, proceeding through unicellular organisms and ending with the emergence of man. In the same room the history of the development of the theory of evolution was set out in a display cabinet, assembled by Miss Jessie Dobson, starting with Aristotle and ending with T. H. Huxley. In planning this exhibition, which was drawn and designed by Sylvia Treadgold, I came to learn much about evolution and hoped that visitors