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A336 Book: Gray, Asa. 1888. Darwiniana: Essays and reviews pertaining to Darwinism. New York: D. Appleton. Text Image PDF

hypothesis. For a theory of evolution, this is singularly unlike Darwin's in most respects, and particularly in the kind of causes invoked and speculations indulged in. But we are not here to comment upon it beyond the particular point under consideration, namely, its doctrine of the inherently limited duration of species. This comes, it will be noticed, as a deduction from the modern physical doctrine of the equivalence of force. The reasoning is ingenious, but, if we mistake not, fallacious. To

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A336 Book: Gray, Asa. 1888. Darwiniana: Essays and reviews pertaining to Darwinism. New York: D. Appleton. Text Image PDF

379 how it is held. Darwinian evolution (whatever may be said of other kinds) is neither theistical nor non-theistical. Its relations to the question of design belong to the natural theologian, or, in the larger sense, to the philosopher. So long as the world lasts it will probably be open to any one to hold consistently, in the last resort, either of the two hypotheses, that of a divine mind, or that of no divine mind. There is no way that we know of by which the alternative may be excluded

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A336 Book: Gray, Asa. 1888. Darwiniana: Essays and reviews pertaining to Darwinism. New York: D. Appleton. Text Image PDF

381 of things.1 Design in Nature is distinguished from that in human affairs—as it fittingly should be—by all comprehensiveness and system. Its theological synonym is Providence. Its application in particular is surrounded by similar insoluble difficulties; nevertheless, both are bound up with theism. Probably few at the present day will maintain that Darwinian evolution is incompatible with the principle of design; but some insist that the theory can dispense with, and in fact supersedes

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A336 Book: Gray, Asa. 1888. Darwiniana: Essays and reviews pertaining to Darwinism. New York: D. Appleton. Text Image PDF

387 dications from the first. The variations of which we speak, as originating in no obvious causal relation to the external conditions, do not include dwarfed or starved, and gigantesque or luxuriant forms, and those drawn up or expanded on the one hand, or contracted and hardened on the other, by the direct difference in the supply of food and moisture, light and heat. Here the action of the environment is both obvious and direct. But such cases do not count for much in evolution. Moreover

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A336 Book: Gray, Asa. 1888. Darwiniana: Essays and reviews pertaining to Darwinism. New York: D. Appleton. Text Image PDF

indispensable this be to a full presentation of the evidence of mind in Nature. To us the evidence, judged as impartially as we are capable of judging, appears convincing. But, whatever view one unconvinced may take, it cannot remain doubtful what position a theist ought to occupy. If he cannot recognize design in Nature because of evolution, he may be ranked with those of whom it was said, Except ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe. How strange that a convinced theist should be so prone

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A688 Pamphlet: Anon. 1888. Darwinisme og Christendom. Tre prædikener af Biskopperne af Carlisle, Bedford og Manchester. Copenhagen: Høst. Text Image

se isaafald Gud skabe ved Evolution istedetfor ved iso-lerede og usammenhængende Acter og Skabelsesenergier.Men nu lærer vor Bibel os at tro, at Mennesketer skabt som et Væsen aldeles forskjelligt fra de andrelevende Skabninger paa Jorden og ved en ganske særligog ejendommelig Aet af den guddommelige Villie. Kunnevi tvivle om dette? Nuvel, der er ganske vist dem, derbetvivle det. Men kunne vi? — Antaget at Evolutions-theorien fuldt ud er bevist, saa kan den dog alene ved-røre det materielle

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A688 Pamphlet: Anon. 1888. Darwinisme og Christendom. Tre prædikener af Biskopperne af Carlisle, Bedford og Manchester. Copenhagen: Høst. Text Image

Menneskets Skabelse indtager i den ældgamle Beretning?Mig synes det helt vel muligt at forsone Theorien omnaturlig Evolution af Menneskets ydre Organisme (meddens hemmelighedsfulde og complicerede Udvikling afEvner og Tilpasninger) med den Værdighed, som Skaber-blivet har tildelt det Væsen, der i sin glimrende Ud-rustelse med aandelige og intellectuelle Kræfter skuldeblive en ny Skabning. Man vil se, at jeg ikke betragter selv de dristigsteHypotheser med Hensyn til Menneskets Oprindelse

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A252 Book contribution: [Darwin, F.] 1888. Darwin, C. R. In L. Stephen and S. Lee eds., Dictionary of national biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., vol. 14: 72-84. Text Image

so insignificant a part in the great scheme of nature' should have been created. And this is written in the language of theologico-natural-history rather than from the point of view of one who realises the full meaning of the struggle for existence. After reading the 'Journal' of 1845 we come back with a sense of surprise to the Manuscript Sketch of 1844, where his theory of evolution by means of natural selection is so completely given. Even in the note-book filled between July 1837 and

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A336 Book: Gray, Asa. 1888. Darwiniana: Essays and reviews pertaining to Darwinism. New York: D. Appleton. Text Image PDF

continues: But if it be said, 'After all, there is no why; the doctrine of evolution, by doing away with the theory of creation, does away with that of final causes,' let us answer boldly, 'Not in the least.' We might accept all that Mr. Darwin, all that Prof. Huxley, all that other most able men have so learnedly and acutely written on physical science, and yet preserve our natural theology on the same basis as that on which Butler and Paley left it. That we should have to develop it I do not deny

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A344 Periodical contribution: Huxley, T. H. 1888. [Obituary notice: Charles Robert Darwin]. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 44 (269): i-xxv. Text Image

the author's extensive, though not very profound, acquaintance with natural phenomena was set forth; but in a still greater degree, probably, to the boldness of the speculative views, always ingenious and sometimes fantastic, in which he indulged. The conception of evolution set afoot by De Maillet and others, in the early part of the century, not only found a vigorous champion in * The references throughout this notice are to the 'Life and Letters,' unless the contrary is expressly stated. VOL

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A1010 Periodical contribution: Newton, Alfred. 1888. Early days of Darwinism. Macmillan's Magazine 57 (February): 241-249. Text PDF

Species, on a low view of species; but was it capable of doing more than this ? And especially could the process of almost invisible steps, asserted by Mr. Darwin and Mr. Wallace to be thus continuously going on, be attended by such momentous results and end in producing effects so stupendous as those which we now-a-days express by the word Evolution? That the doubt thus implied was occasionally staggering I do not deny; but I always found that, even if for a time I reeled under it, I could by

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A252 Book contribution: [Darwin, F.] 1888. Darwin, C. R. In L. Stephen and S. Lee eds., Dictionary of national biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., vol. 14: 72-84. Text Image

his opportunity. He left England untried and almost uneducated for science, he returned a successful collector, a practised and brilliant geologist, and with a wide general knowledge of zoology gained at first hand in many parts of the world. And above all he came back full of the thoughts on evolution impressed on him by South American fossils, by Galapagos birds, and by the general knowledge of the complex interdependence of all living things gained in his wanderings. And thus it was that

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A252 Book contribution: [Darwin, F.] 1888. Darwin, C. R. In L. Stephen and S. Lee eds., Dictionary of national biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., vol. 14: 72-84. Text Image

of regarding nature during the interval 1837-45. He records that as early as March 1836 he had been much struck by the character of the American fossils and of the Galapagos species. His first note-book was opened in July 1837, so that the first edition of the 'Journal' was written only a few months after he had begun to formulate his belief in evolution, while the second edition was published after an interval of eight years. He has recorded the fact that he did not see his way clearly until

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A252 Book contribution: [Darwin, F.] 1888. Darwin, C. R. In L. Stephen and S. Lee eds., Dictionary of national biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., vol. 14: 72-84. Text Image

here within the limits of a single species we have a degree of sterility strictly comparable to what obtains in the crossing of distinct species. Thus our knowledge of heterostyled plants is of importance as bearing on one of the most difficult points in the statement of the case for evolution, the sterility of inter-specific crosses, and of hybrids. The papers on heterostyled plants (the first of which was published in 1862), supplemented with a number of facts and discussions of a cognate

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A336 Book: Gray, Asa. 1888. Darwiniana: Essays and reviews pertaining to Darwinism. New York: D. Appleton. Text Image PDF

natural theology, 87 sq., 157 sq., 255, 272, 386; how it produces divergence, 43, 91; not disproved by special miraculous exceptions, 93; not the exclusive cause of modification, 104, 195, 337, 386; extent of operation, 104-109, 273; not to be confounded with variation, 195. Natural theology unshaken by physical science, 22, 53, 84, 89, 95, 137, 150, 151, 152, 259, 337. Naudin, Charles, views regarding the evolution of species, 349 sq. Nectarine, origin of, 111. Necessity versus design, 62-86; how

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A336 Book: Gray, Asa. 1888. Darwiniana: Essays and reviews pertaining to Darwinism. New York: D. Appleton. Text Image PDF

Lyell, probably the most learned of geologists, and even by a class of Christian divines like Dr. McCosh, who think that certain theories of cosmogony, like the nebular hypothesis and the law of evolution, may be accepted without doing violence to faith. — Evening Bulletin. THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND the Lower Animals. With Photographic and other Illustrations, i vol., thick i2mo. Cloth. Price, $3.50. Whatever one thinks of Mr. Darwin's theory, it must be admitted that his great

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A344 Periodical contribution: Huxley, T. H. 1888. [Obituary notice: Charles Robert Darwin]. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 44 (269): i-xxv. Text Image

was in fact an anticipator of Lamarck, and not of Charles Darwin; there is no trace in his works of the conceptions by the addition of which his grandson metamorphosed the theory of evolution as applied to living things and gave it a new foundation. Charles Darwin's childhood and youth afforded no intimation that he would be, or do, anything out of the common run. In fact, the prognostications of the educational authorities into whose hands he first fell, were most distinctly unfavourable; and

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A252 Book contribution: [Darwin, F.] 1888. Darwin, C. R. In L. Stephen and S. Lee eds., Dictionary of national biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., vol. 14: 72-84. Text Image

his theory, together with some passages from his sketch of 1844. The two papers were read on the evening of 1 July 1858, and were published together in the 'Linnean Society's Journal,' vol. iii. No. 9, 1858.This incident was a fortunate one for the progress of evolution, since it induced Darwin to write the 'Origin of Species,' a presentation of his views far more readable and more powerful for conversion than his projected fuller work could possibly have been. After the publication of the

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A252 Book contribution: [Darwin, F.] 1888. Darwin, C. R. In L. Stephen and S. Lee eds., Dictionary of national biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., vol. 14: 72-84. Text Image

of facts bearing on the subject dated back to 1837 or 1838. This matured store of facts and thoughts could now be fully expanded, and it should be noted that this subject and the variation of domestic races were the only ones connected with evolution which he was enabled to write in extenso, so as to use his full store of materials. In the years between 1859 and 1871 a great change in the receptivity of the public for evolutionary ideas had been wrought, and although the subject was more likely

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A252 Book contribution: [Darwin, F.] 1888. Darwin, C. R. In L. Stephen and S. Lee eds., Dictionary of national biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., vol. 14: 72-84. Text Image

varied, but whether he investigated the fertilisation of flowers, the twining of stems, the movements of leaves, or the natural history of insectivorous plants, the character of the work remained the same. One of Darwin's earliest references to a botanical subject occurs in the note-book of 1837-8, in which facts bearing on evolution were collected. 'Do not plants which have male and female organs together yet receive influence from other plants? Does not Lyell give some arguments about varieties