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outbreak of that dreadful malady had those experiments been so immensely beneficial as Mr; Darwin would have us believe? We seem to be always condemned to listen to a repetition of the story of the old Egyptian magicians who succeeded in reproducing the Plagues, but failed to cure them. But lastly, Sir, I beg to ask whether the principles of the evolution philosophy require us to believe that the advancement of the noble science of physiology is so supreme an object of human effort that the
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CUL-DAR139.17.6
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1881.05.02
Mr Darwin on vivisection `Zoophilist (special suppt)': 17-24
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Egyptian magicians who succeeded in reproducing the plagues, but failed to cure them. But lastly, Sir, I beg to ask whether the principles of the evolution philosophy require us to believe that the advancement of the noble science of physiology' is so supreme an object of human effort that the corresponding retreat and disappearance of the sentiments of compassion and sympathy must be accounted as of no consequence in the balance? Ought we to rejoice if a human being has spent a lifetime in the work
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A116
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Anon. 1868. [Review of] The Variation of animals and plants under domestication. The American Naturalist 2 (10) (December) 547-553.
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their peculiarities to their offspring. Thus a constant progress is maintained, the structures varying and gradually departing from their original types by this infinitely slow process of improvement by evolution, until new species, new genera, and new families arise. This process is called natural selection, showing that nature does her work of progressive improvement in organic beings, as the breeder does among domesticated animals, by the destruction or exclusion of the inferior individuals
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A116
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Anon. 1868. [Review of] The Variation of animals and plants under domestication. The American Naturalist 2 (10) (December) 547-553.
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generation. The key-note to the theory of the origin of species, the doctrine of evolution, would appear to be the origin of life, the beginning of evolution, and this theory, however true it may be in its minor applications, is very far from completion when it rests upon a basis of four primary types, or even one whose origin is doubtful. On the other hand, the theory of miraculous creation, by which it is believed that every species is separately created, rests upon negative evidence. It is alleged
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A116
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Anon. 1868. [Review of] The Variation of animals and plants under domestication. The American Naturalist 2 (10) (December) 547-553.
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extensive research, is unable to remove the main difficulty in the way of the doctrine of evolution. He is obliged, in his Origin of Species, to assume the miraculous creation of four primary types, and only by analogy does he consider himself justified in referring these four types back to one common ancestor. This part of the argument he candidly confesses is weak and unreliable. Darwin, also, wisely avoids any reference to the origin of life itself, and when he has arrived at the four primary
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A2951
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Bacon, G. W. [1882]. The life of Charles Darwin, with British opinion on evolution. Compiled by G. W. Bacon, F.R.G.S. London: G. W. Bacon & Co.
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THE LIFE OF CHARLES DARWIN WITH BRITISH OPINION ON EVOLUTION COMPILED BY G. W. BACON, F.R.G.S LONDON G. W. BACON CO., 127, STRAND [page 2
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A7
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Carpenter, W. B. 1882. Charles Darwin: his life and work. Modern Review. 3: 500-24.
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bring forward the other side of the question, by the delivery of an Address of my own in the same place, 'On the Doctrine of Evolution in its Relations to Theism.' I was preparing this, with a more particular view to the Evolution of the Physical Universe (which, as it seemed to me, would afford the more suitable basis for my argument), when, by the death of Charles Darwin, the world lost the great constructor of the doctrine of Organic Evolution. I did not on this account think it expedient to
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 153 Charles Robert Darwin died April 20th. In his death the scientific world has lost a bright and shining light. Although we may not believe all his theories in regard to evolution, still his other scientific researches will live and blossom long after his monument has crumbled away. At any rate he knows now the origin of man
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In addition to these there are a number of most important monographs and other contributions to scientific literature. As the man whose name has been adopted for the title of a school of scientific study, Mr. Darwin will always occupy a prominent place in history and particularly in the literature of evolution. As a hard-working student, his example will stimulate close investigation and careful thought
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. The first scientist to frame a distinct hypothesis of development was Lamarck; but it was not until 1858, when Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace put forward the almost identical results of their independent studies, that the doctrine of the evolution of species was recognized in all its comprehensiveness. Even Mr. Darwin in his Origin of Species (1859) did not apply the doctrine of evolution to the human race, but he afterward elaborated it in the Descent of Man nd Selection in Relation to Sex
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extensive acceptance, but since he wrote the Origin of Species and the Descent of Man, the latter appearing in 1871, few scientific men have regarded the theory of evolution as absolutely untenable. Many have questioned whether what he called natural selection adequately explains the origin of species, and he himself did not affirm that there is no other cause at work. The theory of evolution is more firmly established than this method of accounting for it by saying that one species sprang from
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biology in its widest sense. The theory of gravitation had been guessed at before Newton, but he showed how it was to be proved, and deduced the law of its action. So, also, the theory of evolution had been guessed at before Darwin, but he first detected the lines along which it must be proved by direct experiment, and thereby revolutionised scientific biology. Even those who still oppose the theory of evolution cannot but confess that it explains many things previously inexplicable. and
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[Anon] ─ Your readers will have heard of the death of Charles Darwin, and his burial in Westminster Abbey. Opinion is not unanimous anent the universal operation of the law of evolution which he propounded, and with which his name will always be identified, but the religious objection to it is generally and perceptibly allayed. However far some of Darwin's disciples may go in excluding God from nature, he, although confining himself, as a scientist, to which, are seen, never denied that there
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F3512
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Letter Origin "which is, I believe, the most important of my works."]. Darwin's kindness of heart. Literary News (July): 219.
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Anon. 1882. Darwin's kindness of heart. Literary News (July): 219. [page] 219 DARWIN'S KINDNESS OF HEART.—It is, perhaps, not universally known that the late Dr. Darwin was one of the gentlest and kindest-hearted men. He was always ready to give a helping hand to a poor, struggling student. Last summer an acquaintance of mine, a young man who was writing some popular scientific articles, wrote to the great naturalist, asking some questions relating to the theory of evolution. The letter from
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A2907
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Anon. 1882. [Obituary] Charles Robert Darwin. National Association of wool manufacturers, 12: 382-8. Boston.
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, and Ernst Häckel. EVOLUTION OF MIND. He wrote with marked ability on the evolution of mind and consciousness, and possibly reached partial success in framing a conceivable hypothesis for the transition from the rudimentary mental faculties of brutes to those fully developed in the human mind. Huxley, however, differed with the naturalist, and declared that between the mind of the highest anthropoid ape and that of man there is an enormous gap and a distance practically infinite. However, in his
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the general law of evolution. He himself, the most modest of eminent men, never advanced any such pretension he was, indeed, most scrupulous in acknowledging the services of his predecessors. His title to a lofty position in the history of human intelligence consists in the fact that he suggested a theory by which the process of evolution may be explained, and supported his theory by a vast mass of evidence evidence which is of high value, whether or not his particular way of interpreting it be
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valuable treatises on a variety of scientific subjects, but the most important of his writings was Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. His more recent works have been devoted to the supplying of data in support of his conclusions with reference to the doctrine of Evolution, or, as it has come to be familiarly termed, Darwinism. It is safe to affirm that the influence of Dr. Darwin's ideas has been recognized not only by the scientific world, but by thoughtful men in almost every
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A305
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Anon. 1882. Review of The Life of Charles Darwin by G.W. Bacon.
Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology, Industrial
Arts, Manufactures, and Technology (3rd series) 4: 549-550.
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spirit of patience. Those who assailed him with abuse he left to be dealt with by the numerous and able disciples who alike in this country, in Germany, and in America were gathering round him. The second portion of the little work before us, British Opinion on Evolution, consists of tributes to the greatness of Darwin paid by men and by journals of the most varied parties and sects, yet all uniting in their appreciation of his genius and of his work. Whether the writers of these official
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F2031
Periodical contribution:
Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Extract from a letter on the origin of mammals]. In Savile, Bourchier Wrey. The late Mr. Darwin. Record n.s. 1: 149.
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. To mention the name of one, the German naturalist Carl Vogt, he was an avowed Atheist — Mr. Darwin was certainly the reverse. As our great naturalist's fame will rest upon his Origin of Species and his doctrine of Evolution, permit me to mention the result of a correspondence which I had with him in the course of last year. Some time ago I was privileged to exchange works with Professor Tyndall. In the course of our correspondence, which was conducted with that kind courtesy for which the
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A2821
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Leconte, J. L. 1882. [Obituary of Darwin]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 20: 234-5.
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recurrence to the old Aryan doctrine of evolution (though in those ancient times promulgated under the guise of inspiration) as preferable, by reasonable demonstration, to the Shemitic views, which have prevailed to within a few years, and are still acceptable to a large number of well-minded but unthinking men. The doctrine of evolution, in its elementary form, means nothing more than that everything that exists has been derived from something that pre-existed; that the former is related to the
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