skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search: contains ""

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
scientific_terms::humanity in term disabled_by_default
scientific_terms::humanity in term disabled_by_default
0 Items

Sorry, no results...

Try modifying your search:

 
NB: Searches are not case sensitive and will find both singular and plural of any term
Examples:
floweringfind the word ‘flowering’
flowering plantfind documents containing both ‘flowering’ and ‘plant(s)’
"flowering plant"find the phrase ‘flowering plant(s)’
pl*t find any word beginning ‘pl’ followed by zero or more characters, and ending ‘t’
*plant find any word ending with ‘plant(s)’
plant* find any word beginning ‘plant’
Search:
in keywords
22 Items
Page:  1 2  Next

5873_1488

Summary

From B. J. Sulivan   13 February [1868]f1 Bournemouth Feby. 13. My dear Darwin As Mr Stirling has sent me the recpt. you may as well have it with the Photo of the four Fuegian boys which he wishes me to send you in case you have not seen it. He…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … description breeding behaviour descent fauna humanity humanity introduced forms …

Henrietta Darwin's diary

Summary

Darwin's daughter Henrietta kept a diary for a few momentous weeks in 1871. This was the year in which Descent of Man, the most controversial of her father's books after Origin itself, appeared, a book which she had helped him write. The small…

Matches: 4 hits

  • … one other conviction I have forgotten the worship of humanity—this I hope is only in its bud— I c d …
  • … by a sense of boundless love & honour & tender pity for humanity. I have in a chaotic state …
  • … makes it a sort of inheritance— it binds me to the rest of humanity to share in the common sacred …
  • … wider than the church. It appeals to sentiments common to humanity & its religion is a legacy of …

3.9 Leonard Darwin, photo on horseback

Summary

< Back to Introduction It is so rare to encounter an image of Darwin in a specific locale that a family photograph of him riding his horse Tommy takes on a special interest. He is at the front of Down House, the door of which is open; it seems as…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … Darwin, must and would intervene again, ‘for the sake of humanity’ if nothing was done.   …

4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire

Summary

< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … scientific importance, they had provided new insights into humanity’s capacity for social and moral …

Vivisection: Darwin's testimony to the Royal Commission

Summary

Wednesday, 3rd November 1875. Mr. Charles Darwin called in and examined. 4661. (Chairman.) We are very sensible of your kindness in coming at some sacrifice to yourself to express your opinions to the Commission. We attribute it to the great…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … to us, both on the score of science and also on the score of humanity? — Yes, I have …

4.18 'Figaro' chromolithograph 1

Summary

< Back to Introduction In a cartoon of 1874 by Figaro’s French-born artist Faustin Betbeder (known as Faustin), Darwin holds up a mirror reflecting himself and the startled ape sitting beside him. Their hairy bodies, seen against a background of palm…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … untenable and repulsive theory’, which the ‘instinct of humanity rejects’. ‘Mr. Darwin . . . notes …

4.58 'Simian, savage' . . . drawings

Summary

< Back to Introduction An anonymous satire in the Darwin archive has been descriptively titled ‘Simian, savage and savant’. Darwin on the right, elegantly dressed and carrying a top hat, represents the acme of civilisation. The central, nearly naked,…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … However, its pair in a sense reverses the perception of humanity’s moral relation to simian …

2.16 Horace Montford statue, Shrewsbury

Summary

< Back to Introduction Horace Montford’s statue of Darwin, installed in his birthplace, Shrewsbury, in 1897, is one of the finest of the commemorative portrayals of him. Up to that time, the only memorial to Darwin in the town was a wall tablet of…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … ‘his name was the high-water mark in the history of humanity’. For the SHS he was, more specifically …

Adam Sedgwick

Summary

One of the early leaders of geology in Britain, Adam Sedgwick  was born in the Yorkshire village of Dent in 1785. Attending Trinity College Cambridge, he was ordained as clergyman and in 1818 was appointed to the Woodwardian Chair of Geology, which offered…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … speculation which undermined the moral status of humanity.  He read the work of his one-time …

'An Appeal' against animal cruelty

Summary

The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … time ago. This is no doubt owing to the general increase of humanity, and to these animals being now …

German poems presented to Darwin

Summary

Experiments in deepest reverence The following poems were enclosed with a photograph album sent as a birthday gift to Charles Darwin by his German and Austrian admirers (see letter from From Emil Rade, [before 16] February 1877). The poems were…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … great pain He speaks in bitter words: “So you, humanity, were always a game Played …

British Association meeting 1860

Summary

Several letters refer to events at the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the meeting but in the end was unable to. The most famous incident of the meeting was the verbal…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … he believed to be oppposed to the interests of science and humanity.— Prof. HUXLEY defended Mr. …

Darwin and religion in America

Summary

Thomas Dixon, 'America’s Difficulty with Darwin', History Today (2009), reproduced by permission.  Darwin has not been forgotten. But he has, in some respects, been misremembered. That has certainly been true when it comes to the relationship…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … like ‘little atheists’ about the animal ancestry of humanity, but without any knowledge of the …

Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?

Summary

Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … fingers in the orthodox fashion, & thus confer a benefit on humanity, by showing the force & …

Interview with Randal Keynes

Summary

Randal Keynes is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and the author of Annie’s Box (Fourth Estate, 2001), which discusses Darwin’s home life, his relationship with his wife and children, and the ways in which these influenced his feelings about…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … then, if we should think of Darwin as an optimist about humanity and its future. Is he offering us a …

Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies

Summary

The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … million horrid deaths would be amply repaid in the cause of humanity.— At the beginning …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

Summary

In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … 11a ——. 1839.  The obligation and extent of humanity to   brutes, principally considered …

Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours

Summary

Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … often a superficial polish serves to hide the absence of humanity beneath’ ( letter from W. B. …

Dramatisation script

Summary

Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

Matches: 1 hits

  • … Were it possible (which thank God it is not) to break it, humanity in my mind, would suffer a damage …

Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small

Summary

In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … of society’. He regarded this as the highest measure of ‘humanity’, a result of ‘sympathies grown …
Page:  1 2  Next
letter