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Essay: Design versus necessity

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—by Asa Gray DESIGN VERSUS NECESSITY.—DISCUSSION BETWEEN TWO READERS OF DARWIN’S TREATISE ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, UPON ITS NATURAL THEOLOGY. (American Journal of Science and Arts, September, 1860) D.T.—Is Darwin’s theory atheistic or pantheistic…

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  • … be accomplished. Next suppose both players to strike their balls at the same instant, with like …
  • … described. Now, the first half of the course of these two balls is from an impulse, or proceeds from …
  • … takes place. We know that these powers were inherent in the balls, and were not created to answer …
  • … point of time, from the instant preceding the impact of the balls, to the time of their arrival at …
  • … of each player. But, at the instant of the collision of the balls upon each other, direction from …
  • … but would have existed in the materials of which the balls were made, although the players had never …
  • … no appearance of necessity upon the scene. The billiard-balls have not yet struck together, and …
  • … were sufficiently extensive, i. e., infinite, the balls rolled from the corners would never meet, …
  • … or food commences natural selection begins. Here the balls meet, and all future action is …
  • … life, and natural selection, with as much certainty as the balls, after collision, must pass to …
  • … than we can infer design in the direction of the billiard-balls after the collision. Both are …
  • … the struggle for life from the one, and the collision of the balls from the other—and neither of …
  • … might have ‘designed the collision of their balls; but neither the formation of the eye, nor the …
  • … they might or might not have designed the collision of their balls and its consequences the question …
  • … at will, as we could with a pump, and also with the billiard-balls. And here I would suggest …
  • … and over? and if they varied it by other arrangements of the balls or of the blow, and these were …
  • … soon becomes as strong, in regard to the deflection of the balls, or variation of the species, as it …
  • … we do not see the player. We see only the movement of the balls. Now, if the contrivances and …
  • … immediately —i.e., that the player directly impelled the balls in the directions we see them moving …
  • … plants or animals, like the present position of the billiard-balls, resulted from the collision of …
  • … always the argument for design in the movement of the balls after deflection . For it was drawn …
  • … This is a necessary result of the collision of the balls; and these results can be predicted. If the …
  • … origination. It answers well to the original impulse of the balls, or to a series of such impulses. …
  • … of the past. Just as the first impulse was given to the balls at a point out of sight, so the …
  • … seem to suppose that I instanced the action of the billiard balls and players as a parallel, …

Darwin’s first love

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Darwin’s long marriage to Emma Wedgwood is well documented, but was there an earlier romance in his life? How was his departure on the Beagle entangled with his first love? The answers are revealed in a series of flirtatious letters that Darwin was…

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  • … are very much admired, and get plenty of partners at the Balls; but they are not at all more …
  • … Sarah, were visiting Brighton in January 1828 and attending balls and parties almost every night. …

John Lubbock

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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…

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  • … was at the heart of local high society. The Lubbocks hosted balls which the Darwins attended …

Interview with Emily Ballou

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Emily Ballou is a writer of novels and screenplays, and a prize-winning poet. Her book The Darwin Poems, which explores aspects of Darwin’s life and thoughts through the medium of poetry, was recently published by the University of Western Australia Press.…

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  • … affinities with him. The clack of billiard balls in the billiard room next door …

Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson

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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…

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  • … Sound our arrival was left almost unnoticed – no balls – no concerts – no nothings – were got up …
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