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CUL-DAR262.8.9-18 Note: [1859--1882] List of reviews of Origin of Sp & of C Darwin's Books Text Image

Contemp. Rev. 289 Huxley. Direct evidence of Evolution 59 Huxley on species races Royal Inst. 1860 55 Huxley. Time life Macmillan's Mag. 1859 32 Huxley Westminster Rev. 1860 3 Huxley, Westminster Rev. Insectivorous Plants, see Bennett, Cohn, Gray A., Hesse-Wartegg, Rev. Scient. 263 Insectivorous Plants by Asa Gray 262 Insectivorous Plants - The Florist Pomologist 251 Insectivorous Plants in Polish 81 Jäger Zoolog. Briefe 1864 23 Paul Janet, Revue des deux Mondes 1863 93 Jardine Sir W. New Phil

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CUL-DAR262.8.9-18 Note: [1859--1882] List of reviews of Origin of Sp & of C Darwin's Books Text Image

Allyza Nicholson - Bearing on Pal. facts on Darwinian theory 255 Noiré (Ludwig) Der Monistische Gedanke (Schopenhauer Evolution) Orchids, See Argyll, Cooke, Gray A., Henslow, Med Chirurg. Rev., Pop. Sc. Rev. 308 On Cross Fertilisation Orchids 233 The Oriental, Darwinism Language Origin, See Baildon, Bennett, Crawfurd, Ferris, Grant, Gray, Haughton, Maw, Nägeli, Pictet, Simon, Wright C? 21 Discussion on Origin. Journal of arts sciences. U. States 1860 340 Review on Origin of Species; Revue

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F3378 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1905. [Two letters to John Phillips, 1859]. In W. J. Sollas, The age of the earth and other geological studies, London, pp. 99; 251-3. Text PDF

Towards the end of his career, geology, like all other science, was confronted by the reappearance of an old and discredited doctrine, but now presented afresh with new and startling vigour; it was the doctrine of evolution as expounded in the famous 'Origin of Species by Natural Selection. Once more an Oxford professor was called upon to pronounce judgment on one of those momentous questions which arise from time to time to disturb the steady current of established thought. Darwin's present

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CUL-DAR185.141 Draft: [1859] Draft of Origin, [Sect. VI, folio 209](a) Text Image

homologous with the wings and wing-covers of insects, it is probable that organs which at a very ancient period served for respiration have been actually converted into organs of flight . Although Darwin had been gradually developing his ideas on evolution for decades and had shared them with confidantes such as Sir Charles Lyell in 1856, and was gradually assembling his big book on natural selection, it took a crisis for him to bring forth the Origin. In June 1858 he received Alfred Russel Wallace's

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A15 Review: [Bowen, Francis]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. North American Review. 90: 474-506. Text Image PDF

insoluble contradictions. But the difficulty, whatever it may be, is wholly metaphysical; till recently, no one over dreamed of beholding it transported to the province of physical science. But Mr. Darwin will object, that, however vast may be the lapse of years which is needed, according to his system, for the natural evolution of a universe of animate beings out of a monad, and he admits it to be utterly inappreciable by the human intellect, still he has not avowed that it must be strictly

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A15 Review: [Bowen, Francis]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. North American Review. 90: 474-506. Text Image PDF

, it must be confessed that the period needed for the evolution of this system lacks no characteristic of eternity except its name. Here it may be remarked, that, formidable as Mr. Darwin admits the objection to his theory to be, that geological research has discovered so very few of the interminable number of intermediate forms which must have existed as connecting links between the living and extinct inhabitants of the world, still he does not half appreciate its magnitude. The objection is

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A22 Review: [Lowell, J. A.]. 1860. [Review of] Darwin's Origin of Species. Christian Examiner and Theological Review 68: 5, series 6, (May): 449-464. Text Image PDF

second proposition, namely, that Nature constantly produces varieties, we have a right to demand that the author should be held to strict proof of this. For it is evident that, if Nature never, or very rarely, produces varieties, no hypothesis of the gradual evolution of the complex system of organized forms out of such varieties could be even suggested. Now, it is not our intention to take upon ourselves the burden of proving the negative, but simply to suggest some reasons why we should be

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A19 Review: [Wilberforce, Samuel]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species, by means of Natural Selection; or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin, M. A., F.R.S. London, 1860. Quarterly Review 108: 225-264. Text Image PDF

-evolution into higher and manifold forms they separated into minerals, became finally organic and in man attained self-consciousness. '42. The mathematical monad is eternal. '43. The eternal is one and the same with the zero of mathematics.' [page] 26

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A50 Review: [Gray, Asa]. 1860. Review of Darwin's theory on the origin of species by means of natural selection. American Journal of Science and Arts. 2d ser. 29 (March): 153-184. [Silliman's Journal] Text Image PDF

definite compounds of these elementary matters, and their compounds again, in the mineral kingdom, as constituting species, in the same sense, fundamentally, as that of animal and vegetable species, might admit an evolution of one species from another in the latter as well as the former case. * Article in this Journal, vol. xxiv, p. 305. [page] 15

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A50 Review: [Gray, Asa]. 1860. Review of Darwin's theory on the origin of species by means of natural selection. American Journal of Science and Arts. 2d ser. 29 (March): 153-184. [Silliman's Journal] Text Image PDF

be said to have undertaken either line, in a scientific way. He would explain the whole progressive evolution of nature by virtue of an inherent tendency to development, thus giving us an idea or a word in place of a natural cause, a restatement of the proposition instead of an explanation. Mr. Darwin attempts both lines of proof, and in a strictly scientific spirit; but the stress falls mainly upon the first; for, as he does assign real causes, he is bound to prove their adequacy. It should be

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A562 Review: [Hall]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species. New York Times 9 (2658) (28 March): 3. Text Image PDF

elapsed since life was first introduced into our planet. It harmonizes better with our highest ideas of divine foresight, to believe that the scheme of evolution was originally made so perfect as to require no subsequent interference. We have no sympathy with those who, to use the admirable language of BADEN POWELL behold the Deity more clearly in the dark than in the light in confusion, interruption and catastrophe, more than in order, continuity and progress. V. The most important contribution to

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A58 Review: [Bowen, Francis]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin. Littell's Living Age. 66, Issue 848, 1 (April): 474-506. Text Image PDF

contradictions. But the difficulty, whatever it may be, is wholly metaphysical; till recently, no one ever dreamed of beholding it transported to the province of physical science. But Mr. Darwin will object, that, however vast may be the lapse of years which is needed, according to his system, for the natural evolution of a universe of animate beings out of a monad, and he admits it to be utterly inappreciable by the human intellect, still he has not avowed that it must be strictly infinite. We

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A58 Review: [Bowen, Francis]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin. Littell's Living Age. 66, Issue 848, 1 (April): 474-506. Text Image PDF

, it must be confessed that the period needed for the evolution of this system lacks no characteristic of eternity except its name. Here it may be remarked, that, formidable as Mr. Darwin admits the objection to his theory to be, that geological research has discovered so very few of the interminable number of intermediate forms which must have existed as connecting links between the living and extinct inhabitants of the world, still he does not half appreciate its magnitude. The objection is

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A48 Review: [Duns, John]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of species. North British Review. 32 (May): 455-486. Text Image PDF

that sic placebat may most naturally be affirmed. In the evolution of these, under the four great types vertebrata, articulata, mollusca, and radiata we find the basis for the doctrine of final causes which Mr Darwin has no favour for, but apart from the recognition of which all nature would be a scene of confusion. It is not unnecessary to call attention to these things. There are many evidences that some most accomplished naturalists are drifting from moorings which ablest systematists and most

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A49 Review: [Gray, Asa]. 1860. [Review of Origin]. Darwin on the origin of species. Atlantic Monthly 6 (July-August): 109-116, 229-239. Text Image PDF

must needs believe in the separate and special creation of man, however it may have been with the lower animals and with plants. No doubt, the full development and symmetry of Darwin's hypothesis strongly suggest the evolution of the human no less than the lower animal races out of some simple primordial animal, that all are equally lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long be- * Vide Proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1859, and London Athen um

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A49 Review: [Gray, Asa]. 1860. [Review of Origin]. Darwin on the origin of species. Atlantic Monthly 6 (July-August): 109-116, 229-239. Text Image PDF

more favored evolution, is not a very violent supposition. Anyhow, it was a supposition sure to be made. The actual geographical distribution of species upon the earth's surface tends to suggest the same notion. For, as a general thing, all or most of the species of a peculiar genus or other type are grouped in the same country, or occupy continuous, proximate, or accessible areas. So well does this rule hold, so general is the implication that kindred species are or were associated

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A51 Review: [Gray, Asa]. 1860. Darwin and his reviewers. Atlantic Monthly. 6 (October): 406-425. Text Image PDF

the theory of the evolution of these into species, even while for the present we hold the hypothesis of a further evolution in cool suspense or in grave suspicion. In respect to very many questions a wise man's mind rests long in a state neither of belief nor of unbelief. But your intellectually short-sighted people are apt to be preternaturally clear-sighted, and to find their way very plain to positive conclusions upon one side or the other of every mooted question. In fact, most people, and

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A567 Pamphlet: Gray, Asa. 1861. Natural Selection not inconsistent with Natural Theology. A free examination of Darwin's treatise on the Origin of Species, and of its American reviewers. Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860. London: Trübner & Co., Boston: Ticknor and Fields. Text Image PDF

cies, are led to infer that all species of a genus may have thus diverged from a common stock, and thence to suppose a higher community of origin in ages still farther back, and so on. Following the safe example of the physicist, and acknowledging the fact of the diversification of a once homogeneous species into varieties, we may receive the theory of the evolution of these into species, even while for the present we hold the hypothesis of a further evolution in cool suspense or in grave

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A567 Pamphlet: Gray, Asa. 1861. Natural Selection not inconsistent with Natural Theology. A free examination of Darwin's treatise on the Origin of Species, and of its American reviewers. Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860. London: Trübner & Co., Boston: Ticknor and Fields. Text Image PDF

until some testimony of the sort is produced, we must needs believe in the separate and special creation of man, however it may have been with the lower animals and with plants. No doubt, the full development and symmetry of Darwin's hypothesis strongly suggest the evolution of the human no less than the lower animal races out of some simple primordial animal, that all are equally lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited. But

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A567 Pamphlet: Gray, Asa. 1861. Natural Selection not inconsistent with Natural Theology. A free examination of Darwin's treatise on the Origin of Species, and of its American reviewers. Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860. London: Trübner & Co., Boston: Ticknor and Fields. Text Image PDF

. Obviously suggestive this of the hypothesis that they were satellites, not thrown off by revolution, like the moons of Jupiter, Saturn, and our own solitary moon, but gradually and peacefully detached by divergent variation. That such closely related species may be only varieties of higher grade, earlier origin, or more favored evolution, is not a very violent supposition. Anyhow, it was a supposition sure to be made. 3. The actual geographical distribution of species upon the earth's surface