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A1216    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. [Obituary] Charles Darwin. The Spectator (22 April): 525-6.   Text   PDF
. What Mr. Darwin does not seem to us to have treated with anything like the subtlety and depth with which he investigated the laws of organic change, is the psychology of human nature, though even here he had sagacity enough to put his finger on the right spot, though he failed to enter into the moral phenomena which he rightly held to contain the essence of the problem. He was so anxious to show that the moral life of man is but an evolution from the moral life of the lower animals, that he tried
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A1324    Review:     Anon. 1882. [Review of Earthworms] What man owes to Earth-worms. Sunday Morning Call (12 February): 6.   Text   PDF
will not do, therefore, any longer to despise the worm. Indeed, not only is it useful in creating the mold which makes the earth fertile, but it helps also to preserve for man the memorials of the past. Its mission is to cover all naked surfaces with its ejecta. The earth which passes through its intestinal canal is rendered soft and fertile, and covers and preserves whatever it is deposited upon. The discovery of the value of the worm in the scheme of evolution (it is not scientific to say
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A2907    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1882. [Obituary] Charles Robert Darwin. National Association of wool manufacturers, 12: 382-8. Boston.   Text   PDF
the creation as given in the Bible and also that of evolution, although Professor Huxley in an able review demonstrated the logical impossibility of the acceptance of the two theories. His doctrines excited controversies which are not yet at an end, and many eminent scientists and naturalists have embraced the principles embodied in his teachings, and great changes have been consequently induced in the methods of biology and kindred sciences. In other works he pursued the same line of thought
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A2951    Book:     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.   Text   Image   PDF
all those who were brought even into momentary contact with him, was the beauty of his character. There never was a more honest man. Not only was he superior to the ordinary pettinesses and jealousies of the discoverer— as is shown by the well-known story of his conduct with regard to Mr. Wallace's simultaneous statement of the evolution hypothesis—but he was incredibly scrupulous in verifying all his facts, in listening to every objection, in balancing every consideration that was brought before
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A2951    Book:     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.   Text   Image   PDF
any rate abstain from opposing them; a host of young and ardent investigators seek for and find inspiration and guidance in Mr. Darwin's great work; and the general doctrine of Evolution, to one side of which it gives expression, finds in the phenomena of biology a firm base of operations whence it may conduct its conquest of the whole realm of nature. But it is not only in physical and natural science that the revolutionary influence of The Origin of Species is seen. It is not too much to say
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A2951    Book:     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.   Text   Image   PDF
distance that stretch away from him, put this point with extreme clearness. ''The evolutionary process, supposing it to exist, must have had a beginning: who began it? It must have had material to work with: who furnished it? It is itself a law or system of laws: who enacted them?'' The inevitable answer to these questions justifies the assertion which Canon Barry made the same evening in Westminster Abbey, that ''the fruitful doctrine of evolution, with which Darwin's name would always be
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A2951    Book:     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.   Text   Image   PDF
bearings to classification based on Darwin's theory of descent, rest on the principle of evolution. We see the fruitfulness of the same doctrine in archaeological and geological science, and in astronomy we recognize its influence in the revival of the Kantian hypothesis of the origin of the universe. It is making medicine into a science; to those who are not content except with practical results we may point to the revolution it has effected in the study and treatment of zymotic disease. Nor
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F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF
past and present times, and their geological succession. The homological structure, embryological development, and rudimentary organs of a species remain to be considered, whether it be man or any other animal, to which our attention may be directed; but these great classes of facts afford, as it appears to me, ample and conclusive evidence in favour of the principle of gradual evolution. The strong support derived from the other arguments should, however, always be kept before the mind. The sole
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F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF
gradual evolution, will not readily admit that the sense of smell in its present state was originally acquired by man, as he now exists. He inherits the power in an enfeebled and so far rudimentary condition, from some early progenitor, to whom it was highly serviceable, and by whom it was continually used. In those animals which have this sense highly developed, such as dogs and horses, the recollection of persons and of places is strongly associated with their odour; and we can thus perhaps
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F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF
conditions. I was not, however, able to annul the influence of my former belief, then almost universal, that each species had been purposely created; and this led to my tacit assumption that every detail of structure, excepting rudiments, was of some special, though unrecognised, service. Any one with this assumption in his mind would naturally extend too far the action of natural selection, either during past or present times. Some of those who admit the principle of evolution, but reject natural
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F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF
the question of the evolution of species. We have seen that, according to Lartet, existing mammals belonging to several orders have larger brains than their ancient tertiary prototypes. It has often been said that no animal uses any tool; but the chimpanzee in a state of nature cracks a native fruit, somewhat like a walnut, with a stone.37 Rengger38 easily taught an American monkey thus to break open hard palm-nuts; and afterwards of its own accord, it used stones to open other kinds of nuts, as
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F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF
from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man? Mr. Bain (see, for instance, 'The Emotions and the Will,' 1865, p. 481) and others believe that the moral sense is acquired by each individual during his lifetime. On the general theory of evolution this is at least extremely improbable. The ignoring of all transmitted mental qualities will, as it seems to me, be hereafter judged
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F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF
half-art, half-instinct of language still bears the stamp of its gradual evolution. The ennobling belief in God is not universal with man; and the belief in spiritual agencies naturally follows from other mental powers. The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals; but I need say nothing on this head, as I have so lately endeavoured to shew that the social instincts,—the prime principle of man's moral constitution50—with the aid of active
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F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF
again, when we speak of three-score and ten, we are counting by the vigesimal system, each score thus ideally made, standing for 20—for 'one man' as a Mexican or Carib would put it. 34 According to a large and increasing school of philologists, every language bears the marks of its slow and gradual evolution. So it is with the art of writing, for letters are rudiments of pictorial representations. It is hardly possible to read Mr. M'Lennan's work35 and not admit that almost all civilised nations
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F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF
modification in some one character ought not to lead us to separate widely any two organisms. A part which already differs much from the same part in other allied forms has already, according to the theory of evolution, varied much; consequently it would (as long as the organism remained exposed to the same exciting conditions) be liable to further variations of the same kind; and these, if beneficial, would be preserved, and thus be continually augmented. In many cases the continued development
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F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF
objection to the belief that man is descended from some lower form; but this objection will not appear of much weight to those who, from general reasons, believe in the general principle of evolution. Breaks often occur in all parts of the series, some being wide, sharp and defined, others less so in various degrees; as between the orang and its nearest allies—between the Tarsius and the other Lemuridæ—between the elephant, and in a more striking manner between the Ornithorhynchus or Echidna
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F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF
fix on any definite point when the term man ought to be used. But this is a matter of very little importance. So again, it is almost a matter of indifference whether the so-called races of man are thus designated, or are ranked as species or sub-species; but the latter term appears the more appropriate. Finally, we may conclude that when the principle of evolution is generally accepted, as it surely will be before long, the dispute between the monogenists and the polygenists will die a silent
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F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF
appearance of the sulci and gyri in the fœtal human brain is in perfect harmony with the general doctrine of evolution, and with the ———————————— 78 'Ueber die typische Anordnung der Furchen und Windungen auf den Grosshirn-Hemisphären des Menschen und der Affen.' 'Archiv für Anthropologie,' iii., 1868. 79 'Zur Entwickelungs Geschichte der Furchen und Windungen der Grosshirn-Hemisphären im Fœtus des Menschen.' 'Archiv für Anthropologie,' iii., 1868. [page] 20
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F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF
males of which hatch their eggs in their mouths; and those who do not believe in the principle of gradual evolution might ask how could such a habit have originated; but the difficulty is much diminished when we know that there are fishes which thus collect and carry the eggs; for if delayed by any cause in depositing them, the habit of hatching them in their mouths might have been acquired. To return to our more immediate subject. The case stands thus: female fishes, as far as I can learn
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F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF
that such a state of things was formerly possible. Young lions and pumas are marked with feeble stripes or rows of spots, and as many allied species both young and old are similarly marked, no believer in evolution will doubt that the progenitor of the lion and puma was a striped animal, and that the young have retained vestiges of the stripes, like the kittens of black cats, which are not in the least striped when grown up. Many species of deer, which when mature are not spotted, are whilst
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