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A2843
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[Tristram, H. B]. 1882.Obituary. Charles Robert Darwin. Ibis 6, series 4 (April): 479-84.
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ornithologists as breathing into their science a living soul the existence of which was previously unsuspected, and as endowing it with an interest and a beauty beyond any thing that it had been supposed to possess. When we remember the way in which the Theory of Evolution was, at its birth, scouted in so many quarters, it is with no small satisfaction that we can turn to the earliest volume of this periodical and point out how quickly the truth of the Darwinian ''hypothesis, as it used to be
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A2857
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Anon. 1882. [Obituary of] Charles Darwin. Portsmouth Evening News (22 April): 2.
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evolution alone is the sole cause of life as it at present exists
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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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condition of retaining the disposal of his scientific collections. Darwin was then in an extremely early stage of his evolution as a naturalist; but Captain Fitzroy did not dream of applying any process of natural selection in the choice of a companion, and, with the support of Professor Henslow, the stripling of twenty-two years obtained what would now be considered a prize by any naturalist of double his age. The expedition, well manned, well appointed, and well provided, set sail from Plymouth
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A2922
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Anon. 1882. Memoir of the late Charles Darwin, LL.D., F.R.S. The Zoologist 6, ser. 3): 193-196.
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of Barnacles. But the treatises here enumerated were merely the fore-runners of that work which, more than any other, has made the name of Darwin famous, namely, 'The Origin of Species,' which appeared in 1859, and which in its turn became the preface, as it were, to the elaborate series of works which at intervals followed it. The theory, as set forth in this remarkable volume, of the evolution of species from a few simple organisms, by a system of natural selection, is now too well known to
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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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PREFACE ON the death of the greatest naturalist, if not the most eminent man of the century, it has been thought desirable to publish in a cheap, popular form a short account of his life, and more especially of the doctrine of Evolution ─ with which his name is inseparably connected; and at the same time to give some idea of the opinions entertained of the great thinker, by bringing together the comments of those best qualified to judge. There is probably no author concerning whose views and
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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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search from a study of what they had done by his predecessors; and yet how comes it that these old theories fell comparatively dead and bore no substantial fruit? One reason must be that, as propounded by Mr. Darwin, the theory of evolution had a mature vitality which compelled acceptance, and the phenomenal vigour of which is seen in the results. Mr. Darwin's great theory, in some of its parts, may require modification; he himself latterly, we believe, did not seek to maintain it in all its
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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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metaphysics to the Critique of Pure Reason by Kant. Like all great inventions and discoveries, Darwin's doctrine was not absolutely original. No triumph of science or art is ever entirely detached from previous human labours, for evolution holds good of genius as of all else. Goethe had hinted, and Lamarck at the beginning of this century had actually formulated the chief points of a scientific and natural view [page] 1
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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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DARWIN AND EVOLUTION of the developments of animal and vegetable life. These suggestions, however, lay neglected until the sudden apparition of that wonderful work of Charles Darwin, which put life and soul into the imperfect ideas, and placed before the astonished generation a new view of Animated Nature fortified at all points with lavish facts; clear, eloquent, decisive, piercing, and convincing; marked as much by conspicuous love and pursuit of truth as it was by a perfect candour of
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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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past and with the future of man and of society is seen to be more or less bound up in the question of evolution, development, and descent.— Daily Telegraph. [page] 2
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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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. Darwin was thus born into an age which was already aware of the value of method, and he, above all men of our age, illustrated and made conspicuous the merit of patience and caution. Had he done nom ore than this, he would have deserved eternal gratitude, but he did much more. He proved, at least within limits beyond which only conjecture exists, the presence of certain constant laws of evolution. The knowledge and acceptance of these laws have revolutionized science. [page] 2
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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 objects in the world are regarded as practically the equals and kinsfolk of man himself, we arrive, by a series of differentiations at modern society, with its manifold well-marked definitions and divisions. Thus philosophy, with its old theories of innate ideas and prenatal memories, is becoming nothing more than the history of man as determined by the laws of evolution. We no longer move about in world not realized since Mr. Darwin completed his task. Socrates bade the philosopher learn
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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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sciences are farther apart than they were; no man pretends to universal knowledge; it is permitted to every inquirer to pursue his own path of research, without a too curious regards to the accordance of his results with accepted theories and common beliefs. But it is worth while to pint out that many sweeping generalizations, many negative conclusions announced in the name of a philosophy of evolution belong not to Mr. Darwin himself, but to some of the less judicious of his disciples. [page] 3
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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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inflicted upon him many queer correspondents; but on the other hand it brought its reward, for all over the world all sorts of people were eager to send him what he most cared for ─ facts. He always gave credit for these where due, in the most cordial manner; and nothing is more characteristic of the two men than the behaviour towards each other of Mr. Darwin and Mr. Wallace in relation to their common exposition of Evolution. How often do we see disputes as to priority in some petty discovery
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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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any question in Biology of more importance than that of the nature and causes of Variability. I * It is, I think, greatly to be regretted that some of the more ardent advocates of the Evolution-doctrine are continually (by neglect of this important distinction) leading their disciples to look at natural selection as the cause of particular adaptations of structure to function; whereas it simply expresses the fact that the creatures in which those adaptations had come to exist, would be the
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A886
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Anon. 1882. [Obituary] Charles Darwin. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 5) 9 (no. 53, May): 402-404.
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has so lately departed from among us. And we feel that it is the more incumbent upon us to give expression to our profound feeling of regret at the loss which the whole scientific world has just sustained, as we were at the first opposed to the doctrines put forward by Mr. Darwin, and have never been among the uncompromising supporters of the special form of the theory of evolution which was embodied in the 'Origin of Species.' Of the character of his writings it is unnecessary for us to speak
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F1416
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Extracts from Darwin's draft chapter 10 of Natural selection]. In Romanes, G. J., Animal intelligence. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co.
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mental adjustments. But, nevertheless, the criterion is the best that is available, and, as it will be found sufficient for all the purposes of the present work, its more minute analysis had better be deferred till I shall have to treat of the probable evolution of mind from non-mental antecedents. I may, however, here explain that in my use of this criterion I shall always regard it as fixing only the upper limit of non-mental action; I shall never regard it as fixing the lower limit of mental
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F1416
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Extracts from Darwin's draft chapter 10 of Natural selection]. In Romanes, G. J., Animal intelligence. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co.
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quoted from well known writers, 'looking upon instinct' in widely different ways; but as this is not an historical work, I shall pass on at once to the manner in which science looks upon it, or, at least, the manner in which it will always be looked upon throughout the present work. Without concerning ourselves with the origin of instincts, and so without reference to the theory of evolution, we have to consider the most conspicuous and distinctive features of instinct as it now exists. The most
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F1416
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Extracts from Darwin's draft chapter 10 of Natural selection]. In Romanes, G. J., Animal intelligence. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co.
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tion, and the rest, as implying mental faculties the same in kind as those which in ourselves we call rational. Now it is notorious that no distinct line can be drawn between instinct and reason. Whether we look to the growing child or to the ascending scale of animal life, we find that instinct shades into reason by imperceptible degrees, or, as Pope expresses it, that these principles are 'for ever separate, yet for ever near.' Nor is this other than the principles of evolution would lead us
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F1416
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Extracts from Darwin's draft chapter 10 of Natural selection]. In Romanes, G. J., Animal intelligence. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co.
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a time before the social instincts became so complex or consolidated, and when, therefore, bees lived in lesser communities. Probably this is the explanation, although I think we might still have expected that before this period in their evolution had arrived bees might have developed a compensating instinct, either not to allow the queen to lay so many drone eggs, or else to massacre the drones while still in the larval state. But here we must remember that among the wasps the males do work
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F1416
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Extracts from Darwin's draft chapter 10 of Natural selection]. In Romanes, G. J., Animal intelligence. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co.
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instinct. This conclusion of course necessitates the supposition that the instinct must be one of enormous antiquity; and in this connection it is worthy of remark that we seem to have independent evidence to show that such is the case. It is a principle of evolution that the earlier any structure or instinct appears in the development of the race, the sooner will it appear in the development of the individual; and read by the light of this principle we should conclude, quite apart from all
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