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F2109    Book contribution:     Nevill, Dorothy. [1875-1881]. [Recollection and letter of Darwin]. In Nevill, Ralph ed. 1919. The life and letters of Lady Dorothy Nevill. London: Methuen, pp. 56-58.   Text
At the time of the publication of the Origin of Species, my mother, unlike a number of her contemporaries who feared the book would shake people's faith in religion, remained quite unperturbed, and she became very much interested in the theory which was to have such a profound effect upon scientific thought. At the present day it is difficult to realize the stir caused when the theory of Evolution was first launched. A great friend of hers wrote: Keep me some hour when you come to London and
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F2111    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin and correspondence with Romanes, 1875-1881]. In E. D. Romanes ed., The life and letters of George John Romanes. 6th impression. London: Longmans, 1908.   Text
on pure instinct, get Fabre, 'Souvenirs Entomologiques,' 1879. It is really admirable, and very good on the sense of direction in insects. I have sent him some suggestions such as rotating the insects, but I do not know whether he will try them. Yours very sincerely, CHARLES DARWIN. 1 Diagram for a lecture on 'Mental Evolution.' H 2 [page] 10
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F836    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1875. The movements and habits of climbing plants. 2d ed. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF
be found in any part of the kingdom of nature. It is, also, an interesting fact that intermediate states between organs fitted for widely different functions, may be observed on the same individual plant of Corydalis claviculata and the common vine; and these cases illustrate in a striking manner the principle of the gradual evolution of species. —————————— * An English translation of the 'Lehrbuch der Botanik' by Professor Sachs, has recently (1875), appeared under the title of 'Text-Book of
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F1916    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1875. [Letter to Haeckel published in "History of Creation"]. In Schmidt, O., The doctrine of descent and darwinism. London: Henry S. King & Co. 2d ed, pp. 132-3.   Text   Image   PDF
Darwin, C. R. 1875. [Letter to Haeckel on the origins of Darwin's theory of evolution]. In Schmidt, O., The doctrine of descent and Darwinism. London: Henry S. King Co. 2nd edition, pp. 132-3 [page] 130 Even after the appearance of Lyell's Principles of Geology, the hypothesis of catastrophes received its special completion by Elie de Beaumont's theory of the structure and genesis of mountain chains. From the first, however, Lyell interposed, and derived the following conclusion from a
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F2111    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin and correspondence with Romanes, 1875-1881]. In E. D. Romanes ed., The life and letters of George John Romanes. 6th impression. London: Longmans, 1908.   Text
such a thing as reflex action without well-defined structural channels for it to occur in. But if you have found something of the same sort in plants, of course I shall be very glad to have your authority to quote. And I think it follows deductively from the general theory of evolution, that reflex action ought to be present before the lines in which it flows are sufficiently differentiated to become distinguishable as nerves. I am very glad that you are pleased with my progress so far. From C
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F2111    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin and correspondence with Romanes, 1875-1881]. In E. D. Romanes ed., The life and letters of George John Romanes. 6th impression. London: Longmans, 1908.   Text
department of science, of literature, and also of art. Thirty-six years have passed away since the publication of the 'Origin of Species,' and we have lived to see that again tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. Now we see that a man can fully accept the doctrine of evolution, and yet can also believe in a personal God and in the doctrines which logically follow on such a belief. But it was not so at first. To many on both sides the new teaching seemed to threaten destruction to Theism, at least
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F2111    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin and correspondence with Romanes, 1875-1881]. In E. D. Romanes ed., The life and letters of George John Romanes. 6th impression. London: Longmans, 1908.   Text
care. As far as I can imperfectly judge, it is the most important book on evolution which has appeared for some time. I believe that G. H. Lewes hinted at the same fundamental idea, viz. that there is a struggle going on within every organism between the organic molecules, the cells, and the organs. I think that his basis is that every cell which best performs its function is as a consequence at the same time best nourished and best propagates its kind. The book does not touch on mental phenomena
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F2111    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin and correspondence with Romanes, 1875-1881]. In E. D. Romanes ed., The life and letters of George John Romanes. 6th impression. London: Longmans, 1908.   Text
the Council of the Linnean nominated me Zoological Secretary, and some of the members having pressed me to accept, I have accepted. I also hear that your son is to be on the same Council, and that Sir John Lubbock is to be the new President. I have at length decided on the arrangement of my material for the books on Animal Intelligence and Mental Evolution. I shall reserve all the heavier parts of theoretical discussion for the second book making the first the chief repository of facts, with
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F2111    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin and correspondence with Romanes, 1875-1881]. In E. D. Romanes ed., The life and letters of George John Romanes. 6th impression. London: Longmans, 1908.   Text
well. Like yourself, most of the champions do not like the idea. G. J. ROMANES. There are many other letters, but care has been taken only to select the most interesting. In 1881 came the last visit to Down, full of brightness. Mr. Darwin was most particularly kind, and gave Mr. Romanes some of his own MSS., including a paper on 'Instinct,' which is bound up with Mr. Romanes' own book, 'Mental Evolution in Animals.' It transpired that Mr. Darwin was extremely fond of novels [page] 13
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F2111    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin and correspondence with Romanes, 1875-1881]. In E. D. Romanes ed., The life and letters of George John Romanes. 6th impression. London: Longmans, 1908.   Text
against admitting them, I do not think that I should publish them anywhere else, because where such a personality is concerned, independent publication (without the occasion furnished by the appearance of a biography) might seem presumptuous even on the part of an anonymous writer. Yesterday I received a letter from the Frenchman who translated my book on 'Mental Evolution,' asking me to let him know whether he might apply for the translation of the biography. His name is De Varigny, and he does
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A517    Book contribution:     Pitt-Rivers, A. Lane-Fox. 1906 [1875]. On the evolution of culture. In J. L. Myres ed., The evolution of culture and other essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 20-44.   Text   Image
, not as a primary stage, but as the final and highest result of science. But the highest achievements of science, even the highest practical achievements, would never have been reached by the 1 Lectures on the Science of Language (London, 1861), i, Lecture 1. [page] 22 THE EVOLUTION OF CULTUR
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A517    Book contribution:     Pitt-Rivers, A. Lane-Fox. 1906 [1875]. On the evolution of culture. In J. L. Myres ed., The evolution of culture and other essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 20-44.   Text   Image
constructive arts as to change the form of a language; the action of. the individual man is limited in both cases to the production of particular words or particular implements, which take their place like bricks in a building. Man is not the designer in the sense of an architect, but he is the constructor in the sense of a brickmaker or a bricklayer.. [page] 26 THE EVOLUTION OF CULTUR
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A517    Book contribution:     Pitt-Rivers, A. Lane-Fox. 1906 [1875]. On the evolution of culture. In J. L. Myres ed., The evolution of culture and other essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 20-44.   Text   Image
a larger share of our attention, to the exclusion of any comprehensive survey of them as a whole. The arts present themselves to our mental vision on a larger scale, and we view them analytically; we are as it were in the brickmaker's yard seeing each brick turned out of hand, whereas in dealing with language we see only the finished building; the details are lost. We view [page] THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE 2
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A517    Book contribution:     Pitt-Rivers, A. Lane-Fox. 1906 [1875]. On the evolution of culture. In J. L. Myres ed., The evolution of culture and other essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 20-44.   Text   Image
appear that almost every tribe has a different name for the same weapon. The narrow parrying-shield, which consists of a. piece of wood with a place for the hand in the centre, in South Australia goes by the name of 'heileman', in other parts it is known under thename of 'mulabakka', in Victoria it is 'turnmung', and on the west coast we have ' murukanye' and l tamarang' for the same implement very slightly modified in size and. form.. [page] THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE 2
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A517    Book contribution:     Pitt-Rivers, A. Lane-Fox. 1906 [1875]. On the evolution of culture. In J. L. Myres ed., The evolution of culture and other essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 20-44.   Text   Image
scientists; but I cannot avoid quoting, in reference to this point, a passage from Dr. Carpenter's Mental Physiology, who in this controversy is certainly entitled to be regarded as the champion of free will; and therefore by quoting him we run no risk of overstating the case against free will. ' Our mental activity/ he says (p. 25), is 'entirely spontaneous or automatic, being determined by our congenital [page] THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE 3
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A517    Book contribution:     Pitt-Rivers, A. Lane-Fox. 1906 [1875]. On the evolution of culture. In J. L. Myres ed., The evolution of culture and other essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 20-44.   Text   Image
direction, flakes would be produced ; and by still further repeating the same motions, it would at last be found that by means of many blows a stone could be chipped to an edge or a point so as to form a very efficient tool. But this continued chipping of the stone in order to produce a tool, implies a considerable mental advance upon the effort of mind necessary to construct a tool with one blow. [page] THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE 3
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A517    Book contribution:     Pitt-Rivers, A. Lane-Fox. 1906 [1875]. On the evolution of culture. In J. L. Myres ed., The evolution of culture and other essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 20-44.   Text   Image
designed them for special uses, but arose from a selection of varieties produced accidentally in the process of manufacture. The forms were also suggested by those of the nodules out of which they were made. We see, by examining the outside surfaces that were left on some of them, how a long thin nodule produced a long thin celt, a broad thick nodule a broad thick celt, and so forth. Indeed, so completely does the [page] THE EVOLUTION OE CULTURE 3
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A517    Book contribution:     Pitt-Rivers, A. Lane-Fox. 1906 [1875]. On the evolution of culture. In J. L. Myres ed., The evolution of culture and other essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 20-44.   Text   Image
in a paper on primitive warfare read some time ago, is a vestige of the overlapping flange of the earlier forms out of which it grew, which, like the rings on our brass cannon, are survivals of parts formerly serving for special uses (pp. 182-3 below). In the vertical columns I have given, in the order of their occurrence, the successive periods of prehistoric time, viz. the early palaeolithic, late palaeolithic, early neolithic, late neolithic, d a [page] 36 THE EVOLUTION OF CULTUR
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A517    Book contribution:     Pitt-Rivers, A. Lane-Fox. 1906 [1875]. On the evolution of culture. In J. L. Myres ed., The evolution of culture and other essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 20-44.   Text   Image
flattened, then curved; one side becomes more developed than the other, and this being thrown develops into the waddy boomerang, the ridge of the earlier forms being still represented by a mark on the flat head of the weapon; an intermediate link connects it with the true boomerang. Many other examples might be given to illustrate the continuity which exists in the development of all savage weapons ; [page] THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE 3
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A517    Book contribution:     Pitt-Rivers, A. Lane-Fox. 1906 [1875]. On the evolution of culture. In J. L. Myres ed., The evolution of culture and other essays. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 20-44.   Text   Image
the forehead, representing probably a tattoo mark; the body is represented sitting in full. In the third figure the man is represented sitting sideways, simply by lopping off an arm and a leg on one side. In the fourth figure the legs have disappeared. In the fifth figure the whole body has disappeared. In the sixth figure the nose [page] 42 THE EVOLUTION OF CULTUR
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