F944    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1874. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed.; tenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

, from the courage displayed, as an honourable act; and it is still practised by some semi-civilised and savage nations without reproach, for it does not obviously concern others of the tribe. It has been recorded that an Indian Thug conscientiously regretted that he had not robbed and strangled as many travellers as did his father before him. In a rude state of civilisation the robbery of strangers is, indeed, generally considered as honourable. Slavery, although in some ways beneficial during

F944    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1874. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed.; tenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

deaths of infants, prolonged suckling, wars, accidents, sickness, licentiousness, the stealing of women, infanticide, and especially lessened fertility. If any one of these checks increases in power, even slightly, the tribe thus affected tends to decrease; and when of two adjoining tribes one becomes less numerous and less powerful than the other, the contest is soon settled by war, slaughter, cannibalism, slavery, and absorption. Even when a weaker tribe is not thus abruptly swept away, if it

F944    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1874. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed.; tenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

; polygamous and social habits of, 590. Bachman, Dr., on the fertility of mulattoes, 171. Baer, K. E. von, on embryonic development, 9. Bagehot, W., on the social virtues among primitive men, 117; slavery formerly beneficial, 117; on the value of obedience, 130; on human progress, 132; on the persistence of savage tribes in classical times, 183. Bailly, E. M., on the mode of fighting of the Italian buffalo, 508; on the fighting of stags, 510. Bain, A., on the sense of duty, 98; aid springing from

F944    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1874. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed.; tenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

Curculionid , 301; on the stridulation of Acalles, 306. Wolves learning to bark from dogs, 73; hunting in packs, 101. , black, 540. Wombat, black varieties of the, 539. Women distinguished from men by male monkeys, 8; preponderance of, in numbers, 244; selection of, for beauty, 397; effects of selection of, in accordance with different standards of beauty, 584; practice of capturing, 589, 592; early betrothals and slavery of, 593; freedom of selection by, in savage tribes, 598. Wonder

CUL-DAR26.1-121    Draft:    [1876--1882.04.00]   'Recollections of the development of my mind and character' [autobiography] author's fair copy   Text   Image

another question. He has been all-powerful in impressing some grand moral truths on the minds of men. On the other hand, his views about slavery were revolting. In his eyes might was right. His mind seemed to me a very narrow one; even if all branches of science, which he despised, are excluded. It is astonishing to me that Kingsley should have spoken of him as a man well fitted to advance science. He laughed to scorn the idea that a mathematician, such as Whewell, could judge, as I maintained he

F948    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1877. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. Twelfth thousand, revised and augmented. (final text). London: John Murray.   Text   PDF

indisputable advantages, and yet have perished from failing in other characters. The Greeks may have retrograded from a want of coherence between the many small states, from the small size of their whole country, from the practice of slavery, or from extreme sensuality; for they did not succumb until they were enervated and corrupt to the very core. 27 The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilisation, owe

F948    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1877. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. Twelfth thousand, revised and augmented. (final text). London: John Murray.   Text   PDF

, leave more offspring to inherit their beauty than the less handsome husbands of the same women. Early Betrothals and Slavery of Women.—With many savages it is the custom to betroth the females whilst mere infants; and this would effectually prevent preference being exerted on either side according to personal appearance. But it would not prevent the more attractive women from being afterwards stolen or taken by force from their husbands by the more powerful men; and this often happens in

F948    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1877. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. Twelfth thousand, revised and augmented. (final text). London: John Murray.   Text   PDF

; artificial modification of the shape of, 575. Skunk, odour emitted by the, 528; white tail of, protective, 543. Slavery, prevalence of, 117; of women, 593. Slaves, difference between field- and house-slaves, 196. Sloth, ornaments of male, 534. Smell, sense of, in man and animals, 17. Smith, Adam, on the basis of sympathy, 106. —, Sir A., on the recognition of women by male Cynocephali, 8; on revenge by a baboon, 69; on an instance of memory in a baboon, 74; on the retention of their colour by

F2093    Periodical contribution:     Timiriazev, Kliment. [1877]. A visit to Darwin at Down. From: Historical note K. A. Timiriazev: A visit to Darwin, with notes by Leon Bell. Archipelago 9 (2006): 44-58.   Text

war for the liberation of Negroes in America. During his round-the-world voyage Darwin had come to hate slavery, and this led him (and not him alone) to see the future of the Russian people in the rosiest of colours. Another question that interested him was free thought that was beginning to manifest itself in Russia. A society in which such books as Buckle's History of Civilization (a fact probably borrowed from McKenzie-Walles) are wide-spread and where they freely read books by Layell [Lyell

F3479    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1889. [Letters to W. P. Garrison, 1879]. In Wendell Phillips Garrison and Francis Jackson Garrison, 1885-89. William Lloyd Garrison 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children. 4 vols. New York: The Century Co. vol. 4, p. 199 n. 1.   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 199 Here it will not be inappropriate to cite the following private tribute from Charles Darwin (MSS. to W. P. G., October, 1879): I thank you also for the Memorials of Garrison, a man to be forever revered. It will ever be a deep gratification to me to know that your Father, whom I honor from the bottom of my soul, should have heard and approved of the few words which I wrote many years ago on Slavery. (See the 'Journal of a Voyage,' passim

PC-Virginia-Erasmus-F1319    Printed:    1879--1880   Preliminary notice. In Krause, E., Erasmus Darwin. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin  London   Text   Image   PDF

islands. If this be true, and such an instrument could be exhibited by a speaker in the House of Commons, it might have a great effect. Could not one of their long whips or wire tails be also procured and exhibited? But an instrument of torture of our own manufacture would have a greater effect, I dare say. The following lines on Slavery were published in Canto III. of the 'Loves of the Plants,' 1790: * Journals of Dr. Whalley, 1863, vol. ii. pp. 73, 220-222. [page] 4

A3647    Periodical contribution:     Brunton, Thomas Lauder. 1880. Indigestion as a cause of nervous depression. The Practitioner: A Journal of Therapeutics and Public Health, 25 (Oct. and Nov.) [Copy not found, CCD29:549. Identified in F3701 ]   Text

easily or to modify the constant strain of it by breaks of a day or two at a time. Wearied and exhausted, the hard-worked man goes off for his autumn holiday, and, if he can, will spend most of it in the open air, either yachting, walking by the seashore, strolling in the country, shooting on the moors, or climbing the Welsh hills or the Swiss mountains. After a month spent in any of these ways, the brain-worker comes back to town feeling himself a different man. Instead of his work being a slavery

F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

, from the courage displayed, as an honourable act; and it is still practised by some semi-civilised and savage nations without reproach, for it does not obviously concern others of the tribe. It has been recorded that an Indian Thug conscientiously regretted that he had not robbed and strangled as many travellers as did his father before him. In a rude state of civilisation the robbery of strangers is, indeed, generally considered as honourable. Slavery, although in some ways beneficial during

F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

deaths of infants, prolonged suckling, wars, accidents, sickness, licentiousness, the stealing of women, infanticide, and especially lessened fertility. If any one of these checks increases in power, even slightly, the tribe thus affected tends to decrease; and when of two adjoining tribes one becomes less numerous and less powerful than the other, the contest is soon settled by war, slaughter, cannibalism, slavery, and absorption. Even when a weaker tribe is not thus abruptly swept away, if it

F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

expeditions, 104; apparent polygamy of, 217; polygamous and social habits of, 590. Bachman, Dr., on the fertility of mulattoes, 171. Baer, K. E. von, on embryonic development, 9. Bagehot, W., on the social virtues among primitive men, 117; slavery formerly beneficial, 117; on the value of obedience, 130; on human progress, 132; on the persistence of savage tribes in classical times, 183. Bailly, E. M., on the mode of fighting of the Italian buffalo, 508; on the fighting of stags, 510. Bain, A

F955    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. 2d ed., fifteenth thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

. V., on Eurygnathus, 277; on musical Curculionidæ, 301; on the stridulation of Acalles, 306. Wolves learning to bark from dogs, 73; hunting in packs, 101. —, black, 540. Wombat, black varieties of the, 539. Women, distinguished from men by male monkeys, 8; preponderance of, in numbers, 244; selection of, for beauty, 397; effects of selection of, in accordance with different standards of beauty, 584; practice of capturing, 589, 592; early betrothals and slavery of, 593; freedom of selection by

A314    Pamphlet:     Miall, L. C. 1883. The life and work of Charles Darwin: a lecture delivered to the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, on February 6th, 1883. Leeds: Richard Jackson.   Text   Image   PDF

freethinker, an admirer of the French Revolution, an early protester against slavery, an opponent of the classical routine in schools. In his own profession he is said to have hated equally the quack and the pedant. Science, industry, and the fine arts filled his mind, and he felt no want of other pursuits or interests. His conversation was plain and blunt, Mark with quick ken, where flashing in between Her much-loved Smoke-Jack glimmers through the scene; Mark how his various parts together tend, Point

A317    Book:     Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.   Text   Image   PDF

signs, in doing which I passed my hand near his face. He, I suppose, thought I was in a passion, and was going to strike him, for instantly, with frightened look and half-shut eyes, he dropped his hands. I shall never 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 degredation lower than the slavery of the most helpless animals. His feelings were always strong

A317    Book:     Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.   Text   Image   PDF

, Unconquered Steam, afar, Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid oar; and in other fields besides that of science he was before his time: which has been characteristic of the Darwins. For many years he was a teetotaller, before teetotalism was heard of in this country, and he is credited with having diminished to a sensible exten+ the practice of drinking amongst the gentry of the county. He advocated a more humane treatment of the insane; he denounced slavery fifty years before it was abolished; [page]

A317    Book:     Woodall, Edward. 1884. Charles Darwin. A paper contributed to the Transactions of the Shropshire Archæological Society. London: Trübner.   Text   Image   PDF

patriarchal simplicity, as long as the idea of slavery could be banished; and on this estate the slaves seemed to be happy enough. One morning I walked out an hour before daylight to admire the solemn stillness of the scene; at last the silence was broken by the morning hymn, raised on high by the whole body of the blacks; and in this manner their daily work is generally begun. On the estate where he stopped next Mr. Darwin was very nearly being an eye-witness to one of those atrocious acts which can

A254    Book:     Allen, Grant. 1885. Charles Darwin. New York: D. Appleton.   Text   Image

the most marked determining conditions of high genius. Strong in body and strong in mind, a teetotaler before teetotalism, an abolitionist before the anti-slavery movement, he had a great contempt for weaknesses and prejudices of every sort, and he rose far superior to the age in which he lived in breadth of view and freedom from preconceptions. The eighteenth century considered him, in its cautious, cut-and-dried fashion, a man of singular talent but of remarkably eccentric and unsafe opinions

A76    Book:     Cunningham, Joseph Thomas. 1886. Charles Darwin, naturalist. The Round Table series. Edinburgh: William Brown.   Text   Image

geographical distribution. The chief causes of modification, according to Buffon, are temperature and climate, the quality of food and the ills of slavery, by which last he means the conditions to which domesticated organisms are subjected by man. Buffon also drew attention to the selection exerted by man on domesticated animals as a means of perpetuating variations. But although he mentions the great tendency of organisms to increase in numbers, he draws no conclusion concerning natural

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

to The Times, after the death of his old friend and comrade in the Beagle, described how after perhaps an hour's work he would say, Old fellow, I must take the horizontal for it. Then he would stretch himself on one side of the table, and obtain a brief relief from discomfort, after which he would resume work. Some remarks which Darwin makes upon slavery in South America are very forcible, and also illustrate his own sympathetic nature. Here is one incident which struck him more than any story

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

labours far too high. I am nothing more than a lions' provider: I do not feel at all sure that they will not growl and finally destroy me. It does one's heart good to hear how things are going on in England. Hurrah for the honest Whigs! I trust they will soon attack that monstrous stain on our boasted liberty, Colonial Slavery. I have seen enough of slavery and the dispositions of the negroes, to be thoroughly disgusted with the lies and nonsense one hears on the subject in England. Thank God, the

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

tion of species; you will see that he has an admirable chapter on this. . . . I read Cairns's excellent Lecture,* which shows so well how your quarrel arose from Slavery. It made me for a time wish honestly for the North; but I could never help, though I tried, all the time thinking how we should be bullied and forced into a war by you, when you were triumphant. But I do most truly think it dreadful that the South, with its accursed slavery, should triumph, and spread the evil. I think if I