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'Charles Darwin' [Edinburgh, Brown (Round Table Series no 5)]: 32pp
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the evolution of living beings through descent with modification, he was not satisfied with believing in the truth of the theory, and supporting it by the facts of embryology, geographical distribution, geological succession, and the analogy of domestic productions. What he required was a cause. Darwin had his own peculiar view of the nature of a cause. He sought some one universal principle which would explain all the details; at least he wanted to have some idea of how the divergence at
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once met with any sympathetic agreement. It is probable that some did then believe in evolution, but they were either silent or expressed themselves so ambiguously, that it was not easy to understand their meaning. Now things are wholly changed, and almost every naturalist admits the great principle of evolution ( Origin, sixth edition, p. 424). At present the sale of the book in this country approaches forty thousand copies. Its sale in America has been very large; and numerous translations
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the survival of the fittest was a truth which readily Presented itself to any one considering the subject, and that to Darwin was due the credit of having first brought it forward and demonstrated its truth, and asserted that the destruction of the least fit was recognised thousands of years ago. But, in regard to the descent of man, it fastens specially upon the author's theory of mental and moral evolution, and declares that he has utterly failed. The Saturday Review, however, admitted the
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brought to light in the region of mental science. 1 These truths are specified as the influence of natural selection in the formation of instinct, in the Origin of Species; the evolution of mind and of morals, in the Descent of Man, considered by the late Professor Clifford as containing the simplest and clearest and most profound philosophy that was ever written on the subject; and the evolution of expression in the book described in this chapter. Thus, says Mr. Romanes, in respect both of
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which exist to-day. Embryo animals and plants are now known to go through stages which repeat and condense the upward ascent of life; and they give us information of the greatest value as to lost stages in the path. We can, as it were, see the actual track through which evolution may have proceeded. Thus, says Professor Huxley, if the doctrine of evolution had not existed, pal ontologists must have invented it, so irresistibly is it forced upon the mind by the study of the remains of the Tertiary
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F1452.3
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 3. London: John Murray.
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testifies to the value of Haeckel's 'Sch pfungs-Geschichte' as an exposition of the 'Generelle Morphologie' for an educated public. Again, in his 'Evolution in Biology,'* Mr. Huxley wrote: Whatever hesitation may, not unfrequently, be felt by less daring minds, in following Haeckel in many of his speculations, his attempt to systematise the doctrine of Evolution, and to exhibit its influence as the central thought of modern biology, cannot fail to have a far-reaching influence on the progress
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Darwin, C. R. 1887. Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., The life of Erasmus Darwin . . . being an introduction to an essay on his scientific work. London: John Murray. 2d ed.
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lecture by Dr. Dowson on Erasmus Darwin, Philosopher, Poet, and Physician, published in 1861, which contains many useful references and remarks.* * Since the publication of Dr. Krause's article, Mr. Butler's work, 'Evolution, Old and New, 1879,' has appeared, and this includes an account of Dr. Darwin's life, compiled from the two books just mentioned, and of his views on Evolution. [First Edition, Nov. 1879.] [Mr. Darwin accidentally omitted to mention that Dr. Krause revised, and made certain
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automatism and evolution. London, 1876, 8vo. Encyclop dia Americana. The Encyclop dia Americana, etc. New York, 1885, 4to. Articles Darwin and Darwinism, vol. ii., pp. 542-555. Encyclop dia Britannica. The Encyclop dia Britannica. Ninth edition. Vol 8. Edinburgh, 1877, 4to. The article Evolution by Professor Huxley and James Sully. Ercolani, Luigi. Darwinismo. Reggio, Calabria, 1882, 8vo. Essays. English Essays. Hamburg, 1869, 12mo. Mr. Darwin's Theories, vol. ii., pp. 106-138. Reprinted from the
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F1452.3
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 3. London: John Murray.
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feeling of regard which he entertained for his correspondent a feeling which I have often heard him emphatically express, and which was warmly returned. The book referred to is Haeckel's 'Generelle Morphologie,' published in 1866, a copy of which my father received from the author in January 1867. Dr. E. Krause* has given a good account of Professor Haeckel's services to the cause of Evolution. After speaking of the lukewarm reception which the 'Origin' met with in Germany on its first publication, he
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F1452.3
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 3. London: John Murray.
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CHAPTER VII. FERTILISATION OF FLOWERS. [IN the letters already given we have had occasion to notice the general bearing of a number of botanical problems on the wider question of Evolution. The detailed work in botany which my father accomplished by the guidance of the light cast on the study of natural history by his own work on Evolution remains to be noticed. In a letter to Mr. Murray, September 24th, 1861, speaking of his book on the 'Fertilisation of Orchids,' he says: It will perhaps
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papers of the late Mortimer Collins. 2 vols. London, 1879, 8vo. Darwinism, vol. ii., pp. 51-61. Conn, H. W. Evolution of Today, etc. New York, 1886, 8vo. Cook, Joseph. Boston Monday Lectures. Heredity, etc. London, 1881, 8vo. Darwin's Theory of Pangenesis, pp. 59-79; Darwin on the Origin of Conscience, pp. 80-99. Cooper, Thomas. Evolution, the Stone Book, and the Mosaic Record of Creation. London, 1878, 8vo. Thoughts at fourscore, and earlier. A Medley. London, 1885, 8vo. Charles Darwin and
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, 8vo. Rolle, Friedrich. Charles Darwin's Lehre von der Entstehung der Arten un Pflanzen - und Thierreich, etc. Frankfurt am Main, 1863, 8vo. Der Mensch, seine Abstammung und Gesittung im Lichte der Darwin' schen Lehre, etc. Frankfurt am Main, 1866, 8vo. Romanes, George John. Animal Intelligence. (International Scientific Series, vol. xli.) London, 1882, 8vo. The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution. (Nature Series.) London, 1882, 8vo. Mental Evolution in Animals. With a posthumous essay on
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F1452.2
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 2. London: John Murray.
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of the schemes which have been accepted by the credulity and welcomed by the superstition of seventy later generations of men. To any one who studies the signs of the times, the emergence of the philosophy of Evolution, in the attitude of claimant to the throne of the world of thought, from the limbo of hated and, as many hoped, forgotten things, is the most portentous event of the nineteenth century. But the most effective weapons of the modern champions of Evolution were fabricated by Darwin
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F1452.2
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 2. London: John Murray.
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between the incoming and the outgoing species, that they are the work of evolution, and not of special creation. I had certainly prepared the way in this country, in six editions of my work before the 'Vestiges of Creation' appeared in 1842 [1844], for the reception of Darwin's gradual and insensible evolution of species. 'Life and Letters,' Letter to Haeckel, vol. ii. p. 436. Nov. 23, 1868. [page] 19
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F1452.2
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 2. London: John Murray.
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by intelligent appointment and kept in action by a power at the centre, that is to say, he proleptically accepted the modern doctrine of Evolution; and his successors might do well to follow their leader, or at any rate to attend to his weighty reasonings, before rushing into an antagonism which has no reasonable foundation. Having got rid of the belief in chance and the disbelief in design, as in no sense appurtenances of Evolution, the third libel upon that doctrine, that it is anti-theistic
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F1452.2
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 2. London: John Murray.
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Evolution, in the strictest sense, is actually going on in this and analogous millions and millions of instances, wherever living creatures exist. Therefore, to borrow an argument from Butler, as that which now happens must be consistent with the attributes of the Deity, if such a Being exists, Evolution must be consistent with those attributes. And, if so, the evolution of the universe, which is neither more nor less explicable than that of a chicken, must also be consistent with them. The
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speculation We gamble in various shapes; So Mr. Darwin May speculate in Our ancestors having been apes. The Athen um was unbelieving, but not denunciatory. The Edinburgh Review declared the doctrine of natural selection hopelessly inadequate to explain the phenomena of man's body; although its truth and falsehood had no necessary connection with the general theory of evolution: some law as yet unknown being looked for. Darwin's attempt to explain the evolution of mind and the moral sense is
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CHAPTER VIII. THE Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals followed The Descent of Man in 1872. The motive which suggested it was the desire to explain the complexities of expression on evolution principles. But the study of emotional expression had evidently engaged Darwin's attention at least from the time when the Fuegians and the Gauchos had vividly roused his imaginative faculties; and his direct observations commenced as early as 1838, when he was already inclined to believe in
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F1452.1
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Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 1. London: John Murray.
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CHAPTER IV. THE WRITING OF THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES' JUNE 18, 1858-NOV. 1859 . . . . . 115 CHAPTER V. PROFESSOR HUXLEY ON THE RECEPTION OF THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES' . . . . . 179 CHAPTER VI. THE PUBLICATION OF THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES' OCT. 3, 1859 TO DEC. 31, 1859 . . 205 CHAPTER VII. THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES' (continued) 1860 . . . . . . . . . 256 CHAPTER VIII. THE SPREAD OF EVOLUTION 1861-1862 356 VOLUME III. CHAPTER I. THE SPREAD OF EVOLUTION. 'VARIATION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS' 1863-1866 . . . I
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ist, by L F. Ward; Darwin on Emotional Expression, by F. Baker; a Darwinian Bibliography, by F. W. True. Blind, Mathilde. Shelley's View of Nature contrasted with Darwin's London, 1886, 8vo. Only 25 copies of this lecture were printed for private distribution. Boase, Henry S. A few words on Evolution and Creation, etc. London, 1882, 8vo. Braubach, W. Religion, Moral, und Philosophie der Darwin schen Artlehre. Neuwied, 1869, 8vo. Bree, C. R. Species not Transmutable, nor the result of secondary
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