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Darwin, C. R. 1879. Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray.
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might have been generated rather than created; that is, it might have been produced from very small beginnings, increasing by the activity of its inherent principles, rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the Almighty fiat. What a magnificent idea of the infinite power of the Great Architect! The Cause of Causes! Parent oF Parents! Ens Entium! For if we may compare infinities, it would seem to require a greater infinity of power to cause the causes of effects, than to cause the
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PC-Virginia-Erasmus-F1319
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Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin
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Darwin, although with great acumen; and it is to Darwin therefore that the credit is due of having first established a complete system of the theory of evolution. The evidence of this I shall adduce hereafter. The unusual circumstance that a grandfather should be the intellectual precursor of his grandson in questions which now-a-days more than any others move the minds of men, must of itself suffice to excite the liveliest interest. But at the same time it must be pointed out that in this fact
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PC-Virginia-Erasmus-F1319
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1879--1880
Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin
London
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the doctor's activity of which he was most capable of judging. The literati formerly extolled his poetical merits. Eighteen years ago an English physician praised his medical contributions; and it has remained for the present writer to add to these the hitherto neglected tribute of recognition* which is due to him on the part of natural history and physio-philosophy. It is characteristic of this distinguished man that he never exhibited those fluctuating opinions with respect to the evolution of
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PC-Virginia-Erasmus-F1319
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1879--1880
Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin
London
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(which I was obliged to mention only because the author always speaks of a filament, instead of the egg as the germ of the living creature), the author now, with the greatest acumen, maintains the theory of epigenesis in opposition to the theory of evolution (in the older sense), showing that every creature is a complete new formation, which, with each grade of development attained by it, develops other formative impulses, and thus can incorporate with its own essence even the latest
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PC-Virginia-Erasmus-F1319
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Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin
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might have been generated rather than created; that is, it might have been produced from very small beginnings, increasing by the activity of its inherent principles, rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the Almighty fiat. What a magnificent idea of the infinite power of the Great Architect! The Cause of Causes! Parent oF Parents! Ens Entium! For if we may compare infinities, it would seem to require a greater infinity of power to cause the causes of effects, than to cause the
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F1319
Book contribution:
Darwin, C. R. 1879. Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. London: John Murray.
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uniformity of the effect would indicate some other general cause, still to be made out. This cause lies in natural selection, and the reticence of the elder Darwin in the face of these circumstances, is the best proof how imperfect any theory of evolution remains without this principle. [page] 18
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PC-Virginia-Erasmus-F1319
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Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin
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uniformity of the effect would indicate some other general cause, still to be made out. This cause lies in natural selection, and the reticence of the elder Darwin in the face of these circumstances, is the best proof how imperfect any theory of evolution remains without this principle. [page] 18
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matter and hypothesis there can be selected the materials for a system so like the younger Darwin's as to come an anticipation of it. The writer ascribes to Erasmus a complete system of the theory of evolution, at the same time deeming it necessary to adduce the evidence of it. Erasmus certainly thought it conceivable that the first created thing was an egg, or, more probably, one living filament moving in cosmic fluid; and he 'saw even in the lichen the first stage of organic being. The
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F3428
Periodical contribution:
Darwin, C. R. 1879. [Letter to Wilson, 1878]. In A. Stephen Wilson, Experiments with Kubanka and Saxonica wheat. First year's experiments and results. Gardeners' Chronicle, 11, no. 282 (24 May): 652-54, p. 652.
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[…] The aspect of evolution thus presented is not that of transformation, but that of the extinction of the less prolific by the more prolific, of the weaker by the stronger. It is just because the one form of Wheat cannot readily change into the other that a struggle for predominance is possible. Without any change of form in a given flora an entire change of scene thus creeps over vegetation, presenting new kinds of animal food and giving physiological impulses new directions. Nor can there
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CUL-DAR226.2.177
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1879.12.15
Review of Krause E.L `Scotsman': 3a-b [1 cut col]
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professional reputation was necessarily temporary, inasmuch as he made no important contribution to medical science; and his poetical fame has with almost marvellous, and probably unjust, rapidity been utterly obscured. The basis on which his right to a permanent place in men's memories now rests is the fact that he foreshadowed, and to some extent even anticipated, the evolution theory which his grandson has done more than any other man to establish and confirm. But that Dr Darwin was a man of
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F3488
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Darwin, C. R. 1911. [Letters to Samuel Butler, 1880]. In Henry Festing Jones, Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A step towards reconciliation. London: A. C. Fifield.
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. 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 edition
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F3488
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Darwin, C. R. 1911. [Letters to Samuel Butler, 1880]. In Henry Festing Jones, Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A step towards reconciliation. London: A. C. Fifield.
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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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F1323
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Darwin, C. R. 1880. Erasmus Darwin und seine Stellung in der Geschichte der Descendenz-Theorie von Ernst Krause. Mit seinem Lebens- und Charakterbilde von Charles Darwin. Leipzig: E. Günther.
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von Dr. Krause'« Anf*ats ist Butler'« Werk Evolution, Old axd New 1879 erschienene welches einen von den beiden ebengenannten Werken compilirten Bericht aber Dr. Darwin's Leben and von seinen Ansiohten über Evolution eiaschlief. [page break
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F3488
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Darwin, C. R. 1911. [Letters to Samuel Butler, 1880]. In Henry Festing Jones, Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A step towards reconciliation. London: A. C. Fifield.
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Butler's work Evolution Old and New had appeared since the publication of Dr. Krause's article . No mention was made of the fact that the article had been rewritten with an eye to Evolution Old and New. In fact the preface made this supposition impossible. Mr. Darwin knew perfectly well that he was not giving what he said he was giving: he knew he was saying that what he was publishing had appeared previously to my book, and he knew also that my book had in reality appeared prior to this by
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Darwin, C. R. 1911. [Letters to Samuel Butler, 1880]. In Henry Festing Jones, Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A step towards reconciliation. London: A. C. Fifield.
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the reader's memory. The letters referred to and the extracts from some of the other documents will be found in the Appendix (post). CHARLES DARWIN AND S. BUTLER. 1879. Feb. 12 Dr. Krause's article on Erasmus Darwin appeared in Kosmos (German Magazine) -- Feb. 22 My book Evolution Old and New was announced as about to contain comparison between Erasmus Darwin and Charles Darwin. [page]
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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CHAPTER IV. EVOLUTION THE KEY TO DISTRIBUTION. Importance of the Doctrine of Evolution The Origin of New Species Variation in Animals The amount of variation in North American Birds How new species arise from a variable species Definition and Origin of Genera Cause of the extinction of Species The rise and decay of Species and Genera Discontinuous specific areas, why rare Discontinuity of the area of Parus palustris Discontinuity of Emberiza schœniclus The European and Japanese Jays Supposed
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F3488
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Darwin, C. R. 1911. [Letters to Samuel Butler, 1880]. In Henry Festing Jones, Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A step towards reconciliation. London: A. C. Fifield.
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paragraph was struck out the unforeseen result followed that the two notes changed their meaning. The first note about Mr. Dallas now referred to the unaltered article and practically declared that it had been translated as it originally appeared in Kosmos; and the second note that Evolution Old and New had appeared since Kosmos, confirmed this meaning by implying particularly that nothing in the translated article could possibly have got there in consequence of Evolution Old and New. And yet
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Darwin, C. R. 1911. [Letters to Samuel Butler, 1880]. In Henry Festing Jones, Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: A step towards reconciliation. London: A. C. Fifield.
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the writing of Evolution Old and New and took the teleological view that Mr. Darwin had put the notes into his preface intending his reader to conclude that if the article as translated contained anything condemnatory of Evolution Old and New this would show hoe little worthy I must be to consideration when my opinions were refused in advance by one who could have no bias in regard to them (Unconscious Memory, Chap. IV.) He showed clearly in his letter to the Athenæum 31 Jan. 1880 that this
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 3 The increased importance which the theory of evolution in its Darwinian form has given to ancestry will naturally apply most forcibly to that brilliant and thorough thinker whose name represents to many readers the first and last of evolution: If Charles Darwin has made an epoch in human thought for the nineteenth century, how much of his intellectual force can be traced to his ancestors? Erasmus Darwin, the author of Zoonomia and the Botanic
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A1016
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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CHAPTER IV. EVOLUTION AS THE KEY TO DISTRIBUTION. Importance of the Doctrine of Evolution The Origin of New Species Variation in Animals The amount of variation in North American Birds How new species arise from a variable species Definition and Origin of Genera Cause of the extinction of Species The rise and decay of Species and Genera Discontinuous specific areas, why rare Discontinuity of the area of Parus palustris Discontinuity of Emberiza schœniclus The European and Japanese Jays
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