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other point, with an inconsequence that would be strange were it not theirs, suddenly adopt it on this one point. They will have none of him as long as he teaches Natural Selection, Evolution, the origin of man from lower forms; they reject, in a word, the whole of his teaching on subjects where observation is possible, and then accept as true the one statement not founded on observation. He was asked whether, in using the phrase quoted above, he had not gone beyond the bounds of scientific
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Darwin, C. R. 1883. A posthumous essay on instinct. In Romanes, G. J., Mental evolution in animals. With a posthumous essay on instinct by Charles Darwin. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co., pp. 188-189, 196, 198-199, 355-384.
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Darwin, C. R. 1883. Essay on instinct. In Romanes, G. J., Mental evolution in animals. With a posthumous essay on instinct by Charles Darwin. London: Kegan Paul Trench Co., pp. 355-384. [page] 188 We see, then, that non-intelligent habits of non-adaptive or useless character may be strongly inherited by domestic animals. As showing that the same is true of breeds or strains in wholly wild animals, I may quote Humboldt, who says,* that the Indians who catch monkeys to sell them knew very well
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Anon. 1883. [Review of the Essay on instinct]. Posthumous paper by Darwin. London Evening Standard (7 December): 2.
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epoch-making work, The Origin of Species, but afterwards kept back, with the exception of certain select passages, for the sake of condensation. It is now understood that it will be found in print in the shape of an appendix to the forth-coming work of Mr. Romanes on the Mental Evolution of Animals. The following is an outline of the paper arranged under the several topics treated by the illustrious author:─Under the head of migration the main points with which Darwin is concerned are─ (1) that in
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'Anniversary address to Royal Society of New South Wales, 2 May 1883' Sydney: 17pp. Offprint.
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revolution in scientific thought. We can all remember the fierce theological storm which raged about the head of this earnest. inquirer after truth, who, by his Origin of Species and theory of evolution, challenged ancient traditions, and gave a severe shock to time-honored principles of faith. It was soon, however, discovered that Darwin was rather a patient investigator of facts than a daring theorist, and that, whatever might be his conclusions, the mass of facts he had collected with
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, showing that the fruitful doctrine of evolution, with which his name would always be associated, lent itself as readily to the old promise of God as to more modern but less complete explanations of the universe. Canon Liddon observed that, when Darwin's books on the Origin of Species and on the Descent of Man' first appeared, they were largely regarded by religious men as containing a theory necessarily hostile to religion, but a closer study had greatly modified any such impression. It is seen
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which all we in this department must feel has fallen upon us. It was on this platform more than in any other place that the great battle of the doctrine of evolution, which is so intimately connected with Mr. Darwin's name, was fought. It was on this platform that his friends and coadjutors, Mr. Alfred Wallace, Sir Joseph Hooker, Professor Huxley, and many others, expounded his views, and added by their own researches to the sum of evidence which has finally convinced all the leading scientists of
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enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret. Darwin's hypothesis of evolution has been the subject of much controversy. Its adoption by such a leading scientist as Professor Huxley has led many to assume that it has been scientifically proved. But the evidence for the antiquity of man has, upon reconsideration, had its foundations severely shaken. On Darwin's hypothesis, 20,000 years would form but a fraction of the time required to bring about the result which his theory of
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the evolution take place? This is the question that has failed to receive a satisfactory solution. Everything seems to turn upon this one point—that is 1
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the simultaneous and universal prevalence of the glacial period Could that be once firmly established, then, it is admitted, it would indeed be fatal to Darwin's doctrine, But the proof seems to be wanting that the entire globe was involved at one and the same time in such glacial conditions as would be destructive of all terrestrial life. The doctrine of evolution is thus beset with difficulties; and the true attitude of science, according to Darwin, is to accumulate facts which may unravel
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 4 MENTAL EVOLUTION IN ANIMALS. By George John Romanes, M.A., F.R.S. With a Posthumous Essay on Instinct. By Charles Darwin. D. Appleton Co. Mr. Romanes was a friend and co-worker with Darwin, who left him a number of manuscripts relating to psychological subjects, among them th Essay on Instinct, appearing at the end of this volume. As might naturally be expected, the views expressed in this work are in substantial accord with the theories
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Anon. 1884. [Review of the Essay on instinct]. Mental evolution in animals. Book Buyer (New York), (June): 121.
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 121 MENTAL EVOLUTION IN ANIMALS. By GEORGE J. ROMANES. The readers of Professor Romanes's excellent work Animal Intelligence have been led to look forwardto this book with not a little interest. Indeed both volumes may be regarded as one work. They are separated into two distinct parts mainly as a matter of convenience, since the plan of the International Science Series for which the earlier book was primarily intended would not admit of so
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Allen, Grant. 1884. [Review of Essay on Instinct]. Academy, issue 616, (February): 134-35.
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 134 Mental Evolution in Animals. By G. J. Romanes. With a Posthumous Essay on Instinct, by Charles Darwin. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Co.) In this volume Mr. Romanes begins his self-imposed task of tracing out the history of mental evolution, and gives a brief sketch of the probable course of that evolution in the lower animals. Already, in his work on Animal Intelligence, he had collected a large mass of data for such a theoretical interpretation
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Anon. 1884. [Review of the Essay on instinct]. Birmingham Daily Post (16 May): 7.
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 7 MENTAL EVOLUTION IN ANIMALS. BY GEORGE JOHN ROMANES, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. With a Posthumous Essay of Instinct, by Charles Darwin, M.A. L.L.D., F.R.S. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.) This important volume on a branch of the great theory of evolution, as applied to the mental growth of animals, will be found to be one of the most original, valuable, and readable essays of modern times; and the work has the additional importance that thirty
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Boulger, George S., et al. 1884. [Tributes of Darwin as recorded in the minutes of meetings]. Transactions of the Essex Field Club 3 (April).
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as the Darwinian epoch. The great doctrine of Evolution has now become part and parcel of all our scientific ideas, and the theory of development, built on a biological basis by Darwin, is permeating all branches of science and philosophy. I do not now propose to dwell at any length upon his labours; he has too recently been removed from our ranks, and I hope on some future occasion to be able to give you some account of them. His mortal remains justly repose among England's greatest, and he was
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Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.
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Darwin says of him— I feel sure that Mr. Francis Galton will be willing to attribute the remarkable originality of his mind in a large part to inheritance from his maternal grandfather. 1 In an archaeological publication no excuse is needed for beginning a paper on Darwin with some account of his ancestry, but it is particularly interesting to observe the circumstances and tendencies in both his father's and mother's families which certainly had something to do with the evolution of his genius
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A317
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Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.
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once translated into German, French, and Italian, and which excites fresh interest now, because, amidst much that is fanciful and extravagant, it suggests the theory of Evolution established by the researches and experiments of his grandson. In 1800 the Zoonomia was followed by Phytologia, or The Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening; and the Temple of Nature, a didactic poem, appeared the year after the writer's death. In all these works, as well as in the Botanic Garden, the curious student
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Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.
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in Mr. Wallace's expressions of veneration for the lofty pre-eminence of his friend; and the story of their generous rivalry is one of the brightest in the annals of science. When Mr. Darwin died Mr. Wallace wrote a tribute to his memory in which his own share in establishing the doctrine of evolution is ignored, and Mr. Darwin is pronounced to be far above other names in natural science, not only of our own but of all times. However much our knowledge of nature may advance in the future (says
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A317
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Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.
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of animal life are similar; the geological record has introduced to us a multitude of extinct animals, the existence of which was previously hardly suspected, and evidence of the gradation and mutation of the forms of life, which Mr. Darwin in 1859 acknowledged to be lacking, has been so far supplied, that if the doctrine of evolution had not existed, palaeontologists (says Mr. Huxley) must have invented it. The marvellous success of the Origin of Species depended in the main, of course, upon
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A317
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Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.
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Doctrine of Evolution. The first was the well-known book on Orchids 1 issued in 1862, and during the next six years he contributed to the Linnæan Society a number of papers, collected in the volume mentioned further on, and published in 1877. It was while he was engaged upon this investigation that he wrote the letter to the Rev. W. A. Leighton, which, through that gentleman's kindness, we are able to reproduce in facsimile. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, in 1865, was followed 1
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Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.
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distant future. Mr. Darwin's name is associated almost exclusively in the minds of many persons with the doctrine of Evolution, and there is some danger of overlooking the general influence of his writings on the study of natural history. Other men have taken the lead, from time to time, in geology, or botany, or zoology; he writes of each as if he had made it his peculiar study, and each owes more to him than to any other writer of the day. He seemed (to use Mr. Thiselton Dyer's words) by
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