F1452.1    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 1. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for England if she is the first European nation which utterly abolishes it! I was told before leaving England that after living in slave countries all my opinions would be altered; the only alteration I am aware of is forming a much higher estimate of the negro character. It is impossible to see a negro and not feel kindly towards him; such cheerful, open, honest expressions and such fine

A75    Book:     Bettany, G. T. 1887. Life of Charles Darwin. London: Walter Scott.   Text   Image

Henslow; takes B. A. degree in 1831, M. A. in 1837; voyage of Beagle proposed, and Darwin appointed as naturalist; the Beagle sails on Dec. 27, 1831; Darwin's letters to Henslow published 1835; 1832, Darwin at Teneriffe, Cape de Verde Islands, St. Paul's Rocks, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro (April); excursions into interior and amusing adventures; his experiences and horror of slavery; at Monte Video, July; Maldonado, [page]

F1452.1    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 1. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

slavery, which I abominated, and told me that he had just visited a great slave-owner, who had called up many of his slaves and asked them whether they were happy, and whether they wished to be free, and all answered No. I then asked him, perhaps with a sneer, whether he thought that the answer of slaves in the presence of their master was worth anything? This made him excessively angry, and he said that as I doubted his word we could not live any longer together. I thought that I should have

F1452.2    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 2. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

I shall soon entirely fail. . As soon as this dreadful weather gets a little milder, I must try a little water cure. Have you read the 'Woman in White'? the plot is wonderfully interesting. I can recommend a book which has interested me greatly, viz. Olmsted's 'Journey in the Back Country.' It is an admirably lively picture of man and slavery in the Southern States.ellipsis;. C. Darwin to C. Lyell. February 2, 1861. MY DEAR LYELL, I have thought you would like to read the enclosed passage in a

F1452.1    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 1. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

of their cold hearts about that scandal to Christian nations Slavery. I am very good friends with all the officers. I have just returned from a walk, and as a specimen, how little the insects are known. Noterus, according to the 'Dictionnaire Classique,' contains solely three European species. I in one haul of my net took five distinct species; is this not quite extraordinary? . Tell Professor Sedgwick he does not know how much I am indebted to him for the Welsh Expedition; it has [page] 23

F1452.2    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 2. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

up.* And what a wretched thing it will be if we fight on the side of slavery. No doubt it will be said that we fight to get cotton; but I fully believe that this has not entered into the motive in the least. Well, thank Heaven, we private individuals have nothing to do with so awful a responsibility. Again, how curious it is that you seem to think that you can conquer the South; and I never meet a soul, even those who would most wish it, who thinks it possible that is, to conquer and retain it

F1452.3    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 3. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

separation of sexes, ii. 89. Shuddering, iii. 142. Siberia and North America, almost continuous in Pliocene times, ii. 135. SPECIES. Sigillaria, i. 356, 357, 358, 359. 'Silas Marner,' iii. 40. Silurian, plants in the, iii. 248. and carboniferous formations, amount of subsidence indicated by, ii. 77. Simi , relation of man to the higher, iii. 162. Simon, Mr., Address to the International Medical Congress, 1881, iii. 210. Sitta, iii. 118. Skeletons, ii. 47, 50. Slavery, i. 246, 248, 341. Slaves, sympathy

A551    Pamphlet:     Foote, G. W. 1889. Darwin on God. London: Progressive publishing company.   Text   Image   PDF

into close and frequent contact with that scandal to Christian nations Slavery. 9 This was a matter on which he felt keenly. His just and compassionate nature was stirred to the depths by the oppression and sufferings of the American negroes. The infamous scenes he witnessed haunted his imagination. Nearly thirty years afterwards, writing to Dr. Asa Gray, he wished, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade against slavery. His impressions at the earlier

A551    Pamphlet:     Foote, G. W. 1889. Darwin on God. London: Progressive publishing company.   Text   Image   PDF

studied sanitation, pointed out how towns should be supplied with pure water, and urged that sewage should be turned to use in agriculture instead of being allowed to pollute our rivers. He also sketched out a variety of useful inventions, which he was too busy to complete himself. Nor did he confine himself to practical reforms. He sympathised warmly with Howard, who was reforming our prison system; and he denounced slavery at the time when the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel held slaves

F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF

. It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen; if the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin; but how this bears on slavery, I cannot see; as well might the use of the thumb-screw be defended in one land, by showing that men in another land suffered from some dreadful disease. Those who look tenderly at the slave-owner, and with a cold heart at the slave, never seem to put themselves

F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF

CONTENTS CHAPTER I Porto Praya Ribeira Grande Atmospheric dust with Infusoria Habits of a Sea-slug and Cuttle-fish St. Paul's Rocks, non-volcanic Singular incrustations Insects the first colonists of Islands Fernando Noronha Bahia Burnished Rocks Habits of a Diodon Pelagic Conferv and Infusoria Causes of discoloured Sea . . . . . . . Pages 1-18 CHAPTER II Rio de Janeiro Excursion north of Cape Frio Great Evaporation Slavery Botofogo Bay Terrestrial Planari Clouds on the Corcovado Heavy rain

F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF

ST. LOUIS, MAURITIUS. CHAPTER XXI MAURITIUS TO ENGLAND Mauritius, beautiful appearance of Great crateriform ring of mountains Hindoos St. Helena History of the changes in the vegetation Cause of the extinction of land-shells Ascension Variation in the imported rats Volcanic bombs Beds of infusoria Bahia Brazil Splendour of tropical scenery Pernambuco Singular reef Slavery Return to England Retrospect on our voyage. April 29th. In the morning we passed round the northern end of Mauritius, or

F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF

CHAP. forget my feelings of surprise, disgust, and shame, at seeing a great powerful man afraid even to ward off a blow, directed, as he thought, at his face. This man had been trained to a degradation lower than the slavery of the most helpless animal. CABBAGE PALM. April 18th. In returning we spent two days at Soc go, and I employed them in collecting insects in the forest. The greater number of trees, although so lofty, are not more than three or four feet in circumference. There are, of

F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF

nothing should go away untasted, to my utter dismay a roast turkey and a pig appeared in all their substantial reality. During the meals, it was the employment of a man to drive out of the room sundry old hounds, and dozens of little black children, which crawled in together, at every opportunity. As long as the idea of slavery could be banished, there was something exceedingly fascinating in this simple and patriarchal style of living: it was such a perfect retirement and independence from the rest

F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF

difficulty from a third, permission to pass through their gardens to an uncultivated hill, for the purpose of viewing the country. I feel glad that this happened in the land of the Brazilians, for I bear them no good will a land also of slavery, and therefore of moral debasement. A Spaniard would have felt ashamed at the very thought of refusing such a request, or of behaving to a stranger with rudeness. The channel by which we went to and returned from Olinda was bordered on each side by

F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF

compared with Patagonia, 69 zoology of, related to North America, 140 Siberian animals, how preserved in ice, 264 food necessary during their existence, 93, 96 Sierra de la Ventana, 112 Tapalguen, 119 Silicified trees, 354, 376 Silurian formations at Falkland Islands, 207 Silurus, habits of, 144 Sivatherium, 155 Skunks, 83 Slavery, 20, 25, 530 Smelling power of carrion-hawks, 195 Smith, Dr. Andrew, on the support of large quadrupeds, 88 on perforated pebbles, 158 Snake, venomous, 100 Snow, effects

F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

Tory, if it was merely on account of their cold hearts about that scandal to Christian nations Slavery. I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for England if she is the first European nation which utterly abolishes it! I was told before leaving England that after living in slave countries all my opinions would be altered; the only alteration I am aware of is forming a much higher estimate of the negro

F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

letter (Aug. 25, 1845) addressed to Lyell, who had touched on slavery in his Travels in North America. I was delighted with your letter in which you touch on Slavery; I wish the same feelings had been apparent in your published discussion. But I will not write on this subject, I should perhaps annoy you, and most certainly myself. I have exhaled myself with a paragraph or two in my Journal on the sin of Brazilian slavery; you perhaps will think that it is in answer to you; but such is not the case

F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

. I give a single passage. I never knew the newspapers so profoundly interesting. North America does not do England justice; I have not seen or heard of a soul who is not with the North. Some few, and I am one of them, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade against slavery. In the long-run, a million horrid deaths would be amply repaid in the cause of humanity. What wonderful times we live in! Massachusetts seems to show noble enthusiasm

A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF

owner, yet I pledge myself that in good-feeling and humanity he was the superior to the common run of men. It may be said there exists no limit to the blindness of interest and selfish habit. So outspoken was our hero upon this subject that it was the cause, later, of an open rupture between himself and his friend Fitz-Roy. Fitz-Roy not only defended slavery, but praised it, which led to so indignant a response from the young man that what may be said to be the entire future of Darwin as a

A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF

; Egg collecting, 3 collections, 4; walks, 4-9, Egypt, 186 Maer, 4-9; laboratory work, 5; Elater, 36 university life, 6; nickname of, El Bramador, 103 6; wealth of, 6; vacation of 9; El Carmen, 47 as a hunter, 10; college life, Embryo, 191 12; books read by, 14; Emotions, 265 on slavery, 33; on birds, 88; Eocene, 188 14; works on coral, 117,261; Epeira, web of, 39 appearance of, 131,239; Equus, 189 daily life of, 133; early Evolution, 173 papers of, 137; early services Extinction, 64, 76 to

F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

. Slavery, 137. Slaves, sympathy with, 287. Sleep-movements of plants, 316. Smith, Rev. Sydney, meeting with, 35. Snipe, first, 10. Snowdon, ascent of, 15. Son, eldest, birth of, 149; observations on, 149. South America, publication of the geological observations on, 158. Species, accumulation of facts relating to, 39-41, 148; checks to the increase of, 175; mutability of, 176; progress of the theory of the, 165; differences with regard to the, in the two editions of the 'Journal,' 170; extracts

A2945    Periodical contribution:     Anon. 1894. [Recollections of Darwin and John Lubbock]. Darwin's workshop. Bromley and West Kent Telegraph (17 March): 3.   Text

slavery in 1780. There was a great Roman station here within the grounds of and below Holwood Park—where the late Earl of Derby so recently passed away—with historical mounds and remains innumerable. The trees grow, especially beeches and oaks, to magnificent proportions, and can be sat under and enjoyed—for footpaths in plenty pass among them. Nowhere near London do I know a couple of miles square containing so much to charm and reward the cultivated traveller anxious to kill not two but many

F1548.1    Book:     Darwin, Francis & Seward, A. C. eds. 1903. More letters of Charles Darwin. A record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters. London: John Murray. Volume 1   Text   Image   PDF

presented themselves, and were eagerly seized and propagated? 2. In the historic spirit, however, Mr. Darwin must fairly be pronounced deficient. When, for instance, he speaks of the 'great sin of slavery' having been general among primitive nations, he forgets that, though to hold a slave would be a sinful degradation to a European to-day, the practice of turning prisoners of war into slaves, instead of butchering them, was not a sin at all, but marked a decided improvement in human manners

F1552.1    Book:     Litchfield, H. E. ed. 1904. Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. Cambridge: University Press printed. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF

XII. 1823 1824. Kitty Wedgwood's death A Darwin-Wedgwood party at Scarborough Visit to Sydney Smith's at Foston Rectory Winter parties at Geneva Bessy's lessening strength Her girls visiting the Swinton Hollands The Anti-slavery movement, a memorable debate in Parliament An averted duel A Confirmation at Maer Revels and flirtations Sarah Wedgwood coming to live on Maer Heath. 193 215 CHAPTER XIII. 1824 1826. Gertrude Allen's death at Gloucester Fanny and Emma Allen return to Cresselly The John