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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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fire, heat, and light. Matters which can only be slightly touched upon in the verses are further elaborated, partly in short footnotes and partly in more detailed memoirs (additional notes) which are relegated to the end of the volume. It is to these notes that our attention must principally be directed. We are especially interested in a note to verse 101 of the first canto, in which the author unfolds the idea and the first scheme of the theory of evolution. He says: From having observed the
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F1319
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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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part of this same section the author gives a short sketch of the theory of evolution, which, however, must have been more clearly developed in his mind. I reproduce it here, with some abridgments, because in it, fifteen years before the appearance of Lamarck's 'Philosophie Zoologique,' the principles of evolution were completely set forth. Darwin says, When we revolve in our minds, first, the great changes, which we see naturally produced in animals after their nativity, as in the production of the
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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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fire, heat, and light. Matters which can only be slightly touched upon in the verses are further elaborated, partly in short footnotes and partly in more detailed memoirs (additional notes) which are relegated to the end of the volume. It is to these notes that our attention must principally be directed. We are especially interested in a note to verse 101 of the first canto, in which the author unfolds the idea and the first scheme of the theory of evolution. He says: From having observed the
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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
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part of this same section the author gives a short sketch of the theory of evolution, which, however, must have been more clearly developed in his mind. I reproduce it here, with some abridgments, because in it, fifteen years before the appearance of Lamarck's 'Philosophie Zoologique,' the principles of evolution were completely set forth. Darwin says, When we revolve in our minds, first, the great changes, which we see naturally produced in animals after their nativity, as in the production of the
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A2810
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Anon. 1879. [Review of Journal of researches]. [What Mr. Darwin saw]. Portland Daily Press (4 October): 1.
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, birds, and stories of strafe countries and people. Mr. Darwin's observations are, of course, scientific and reliable; and persons who would object to his doctrines of evolution as tending to lessen the religious faith of young readers, will not find any expressions of this theory in the volume. It concerns itself simply with facts, and puts them in a pleasant and graphic manner. Some of the stories—and all the pictures—will please the little ones, though the general tone of the book suits it
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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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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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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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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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F1319
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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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(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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F1319
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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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1879--1880
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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1879--1880
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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1879--1880
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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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [1] [Grimsby News. May 2d 1879.] IS DARWIN A THEIST? To the Editor of the Grimsby News. DEAR SIR, - In a report of a lecture delivered by Mr. Thomas Cooper on Evolution, I find the following words: - Because Darwin in his book (Origin of Species) several times made use of the word 'Creator', it had been inferred that he believed in a God, but the lecturer held the whole structure of the book … was to show that there was no God, and the Germans very
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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
Pamphlet:
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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