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Tag Archives: Charles Darwin
darwin: dispensing with adam
…Darwin took with him on his voyage, besides his own knowledge and aptitudes, one indispensable tool for interpreting what he saw. Before sailing, Henslow pressed upon him the recently published first volume of Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology., with instructions … Continue reading
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consequences: scrambling with the brutes
…To some the implications of Darwin’s theory were negative and desolating. The whole earth no longer proclaimed the glory of the Lord. Paradoxically, in revealing the closeness of man’s link with the rest of creation, Darwin seemed to have cut … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Alfred Wallace naturalist, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Le Brun, Gregor Mendel, Immanuel Kant, John Dalton, Julian Huxley, Karl Marx, Linley Sambourne, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, pierre teilhard de chardin
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darwin: blindly struggling creation
…Seen in this way, evolution becomes a great adventure in which man, product of random mutations and of a suffering, blindly struggling creation, becomes at least in part, the arbiter of his destiny. If this is to be so, a … Continue reading
darwin: throwing the dice at blind chance
…To some, the implications of Darwin’s theory were negative and desolating. The whole earth no longer proclaimed the glory of the Lord. Paradoxically, in revealing the closeness of man’s links with the rest of creation, Darwin seemed to have cutt … Continue reading
darwin: we may all be netted together
Darwin. His theories have already made one profound change in man’s ideas about himself and his world. An now with genetics we are entering phase two… …The furor created by the publication of The Origin of Species was not due … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Bishop Wilberforce, Bob Dylan, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Creation Museum Kentucky, Darwin Natural Theology, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Natural Theology, Pope Pius XII Humani Generis, T.H. Huxley
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darwin: creating the pretext for a dilemma
…It is a strange paradox that Darwin, who gave up shooting because of the cruelty it entailed, should have been one of the begetters of the strident power philosophies of the late nineteenth century. The notion of the struggle for … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Carnegie, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, darwinism, ernst haeckel, Gottfried Helnwein, Herbert Spencer, J.C. Lavater, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marx and Engels, oswald mosely, Prince Kropotkin, Walter Bagehot, William Graham Sumner
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estrangement abroad to reunion at home
La forza di natura, the force of nature will always prevail. Comedy is always the triumph of instinct over intellect. By whatever name, instinct is not only a will to live, but to produce life; comedy is essentially erotic… And … Continue reading
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Tagged Boccaccio Decameron, Catullus poems, Charles Darwin, Giovanni Boccaccio, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Jan van Noordt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sigmund Freud Comedy, Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, The Beatles Two of Us
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it’s backfirin’ now
Josiah Wedgwood and his friends. A diverse lot, both batty, brilliant and eccentric, they are mostly relegated minor figures of eighteenth century English life today, but some of them changed the world… When in 1785, Pitt’s abortive scheme for parliamentary … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham Riots 1791, Charles Darwin, Desmond Clarke, James Gillray, James Watt, Jenny Uglow, Johan Zoffany, Joseph Priestley, Josiah Wedgwood, Lichfield Group, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthew Boulton, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Robert E. Schofield, The Lunar Society, Thomas Day Sandford and Merton
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friendship circle
Josiah Wedgwood and his friends. They were the most brilliant group in England in the eighteenth-century, and quite possibly the most eccentric.Some are forgotten today. Most actually. But some of them changed the world. it was a kind of parallel … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, George Stubbs, James Brindley, James Watt, Joseph Priestley, Josiah Wedgwood, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Susannah Wedgwood, Tom Wedgwood photographer, Wedgwood Etruria works
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