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Darwin and the Church
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The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It shows another side of the man who is more often remembered for his personal struggles with faith, or for his role in large-scale controversies over the…
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- … The story of Charles Darwin’s involvement with the church is one that is told far too rarely. It …
- … beliefs and uncertainties, was determined to support the church as a social institution. His …
- … Darwin and his family had a lifetime involvement with the Church of England, and various dissenting …
- … Charles and his older brother Erasmus were christened in the Church of England as young boys, and …
- … (Autobiography 75). A nominal adherence to the Anglican Church’s teachings was still essential for …
- … extremely supportive of his desire to enter the Anglican Church. His brother, however, wrote to the …
- … of ease in the country and of involvement with the Anglican Church, but assuredly not that of a …
- … and the family went dutifully to the local Anglican church of St Mary’s each Sunday. All the …
- … Darwins placed a large gravestone near the entrance to the church where their children Mary and …
- … Downe (Moore 1985 and n. 19). Much of the family’s church involvement can be attributed to …
- … correspondence reveals his own active engagement with church affairs, his role in local charities, …
- … During the period roughly between 1800 and 1870, the Church of England underwent its most …
- … reporting by Darwin of the welfare of the parish and the church. Other Down clergy …
- … not uncommon in this period for clergymen to hold several Church livings. The authority over the …
- … when the local squire virtually owned the parish, built the church, and sought clergymen of whom he …
- … agents and even clerical imposters, some within the Anglican Church called for an elimination of …
- … discovering that Horsman seemed to have made off with the church’s organ fund (letter to J. B. Innes …
- … through all the uproar about the reputation of the Down church; he even cited as a cause for concern …
- … attend the Dissenters’ chapel, rather than the Down parish church (letter to J. B. Innes, 1 …
- … their comments on Ffinden’s proposed alterations to Down Church, towards which Darwin and Innes had …
- … may partly derive from some of the social changes that the Church underwent over the course of the …
- … the gradual secularisation of English institutions was that Church of England clergymen came to see …
- … Ffinden clearly regarded the Darwins in this light) in local church business would have been viewed …
- … this more narrowly denominational role of the local Anglican church that the Darwins partly shifted …
- … Collins. 1958. Chadwick, Owen. 1971. The Victorian church. Part I. 3d ed. London: Adam & …
4.21 Gegeef, 'Our National Church', 1
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< Back to Introduction A print with the ironic title Our National Church: The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity was issued by the London publisher Edmund Appleyard in c.1872-3, and sold at a penny. The artist who drew it signed himself …
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- … A print with the ironic title Our National Church: The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity …
- … of the sheet reveals that both this print and Our National Church belonged to a planned series …
- … subjects to follow’. By April 1873, Our National Church had, according to the listing in the …
- … central idea is to show the present anomalous state of the Church of England’, symbolised by the …
- … Religious Thought’, from Anglo-Catholicism to the ‘Low Church’, pulling the umbrella in opposite …
4.22 Gegeef et al., 'Our National Church', 2
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< Back to Introduction The second version of Our National Church. The Aegis of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity was commissioned by the freethinker, radical and secularist George Jacob Holyoake. It was published by John Heywood of Manchester and London…
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Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … Design | Personal Belief | Beauty | The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of …
- … on beauty is not candid. The Church Darwin played an active …
- … in a missing letter about his future plans regarding the Church. Letter 297 — Darwin, S …
- … wonders about Darwin’s future plans with respect to the Church. Church and School …
Interview with Randal Keynes
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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…
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- … a doctrine that was widely criticised within the Anglican church, and the kinds of liberal …
- … who were trying to really reform doctrine, reform the church, in light of science. Randal …
- … together. 11. Darwin's support for the church as a social institution …
- … an enourmous amount of time and trouble and dedication to church affairs, a real concern about …
- … he retain some kind of respect for the present role of the church in society? Randal Keynes …
- … that he lived in at the time, it's quite clear that the church had a function and a value …
- … - and the best way of having a good school was to have a Church of England school - and he arranged …
- … I think that in most of his support for the church in the community, he was supporting the church as …
- … values, moral values; there was no difficulty there. So the church was a social institution to be …
- … on, and I think that is really as far as his support for the church went. He didn't attend the …
4.47 'Puck' cartoon 4
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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4.48 'Puck', cartoon 5
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< Back to Introduction Following on from Reason Against Unreason and The Sun of the Nineteenth Century, another cartoon in the American humorous magazine Puck depicted Darwin as the epitome of philosophical enlightenment. The Universal Church of the…
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4.44 'Puck' cartoon 1
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< Back to Introduction In March 1882, a month before Darwin’s death, an admiring image of him appeared in the American comic journal Puck. It was in a cartoon drawn by Joseph Keppler, Puck’s co-publisher, co-editor and chief cartoonist, titled Reason…
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- … institutional religion is reminiscent of Our National Church , the satire designed in two …
List of correspondents
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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
4.23 Gegeef, 'Battle Field of Science'
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< Back to Introduction Another satirical print by ‘Gegeëf’, The Battle Field of Science and the Churches, is signed and dated 30 November 1873. It survives as a foldout plate in a twopenny journal, The Gauntlet, which, like Our National Church and…
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- … journal, The Gauntlet , which, like Our National Church and Our National Religion , was …
Henrietta Darwin's diary
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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…
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- … Working Men’s College, and they were married in the parish church at Down on 31 August. The …
- … The plan of the Mission is 3 or 4 services every day in the church with one or two sermons by the …
- … I want to think why I shd like to be married in a church. I sh d . feel a registry office very …
- … the inward & spiritual grace. What other is possible but the church service—& then I feel …
- … it. The marriage ceremony seems to me so much wider than the church. It appeals to sentiments common …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
Richard Matthews
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Richard Matthews was 21 years old when he stepped aboard the Beagle, destined for a lonely career as a missionary in Tierra del Fuego. The Church Missionary Society had arranged for him to accompany the three Fuegians (Fuegia Basket, Jemmy Button, and York…
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- … for a lonely career as a missionary in Tierra del Fuego. The Church Missionary Society had arranged …
- … teaching, and establish a mission in Tierra del Fuego. The Church Missionary Society had failed in …
- … between the missionaries and the Maoris. In 1840, the Church Missionary Society asked him to assist …
Darwin and religion in America
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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…
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- … and was well on the way to being accepted by the Church too. Darwin was granted the honour of a …
- … this culture was the need for a strict separation between Church and state. In a country with so …
- … one over the others. The idea of a national or established Church was anathema to the Founding …
- … Jefferson hoped would build a ‘wall of separation between Church and state’, was not intended to …
- … churches, the last of these (the Congregationalist Church of Massachusetts) was disestablished in …
- … had ruled in 1947 that the First Amendment separation of church and state applied to individual …
- … never arisen in the same way, thanks to the supremacy of the Church of England, which ruled over …
Visiting the Darwins
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'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
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- … some went to walk spite of the rain, & at 11, some went to church— I was a little uncertain, …
- … some went to walk spite of the rain, & at 11, some went to church— I was a little uncertain, …
- … agreable companion— Then we went to see the old yew in the church yard, a huge shattered old trunk …
- … note to her from Lady Rogers, saying a friend of theirs, Mr. Church, was coming to them to see …
- … on Monday at 7½. Later in the Evg. came a note from Mr. Church to the same effect— We deliberated, …
- … was threatened with cold again, so we neither of us went to church, but read one of Mr. Church’s …
- … decidedly shabby— Not a line for two months!— Mr. Church came down to lunch with us, to see …
- … Dr. Gray took a long round in the afternoon with Mr. Church, I had a short turn at noon, & Mr. C …
2.16 Horace Montford statue, Shrewsbury
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< 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…
3.14 Julia Margaret Cameron, photos
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< Back to Introduction In the summer of 1868 Darwin took a holiday on the Isle of Wight with his immediate family, his brother Erasmus, and his friend Joseph Hooker. The family’s accommodation at Freshwater was rented from the photographer Julia…
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- … the new scientific ideas could flourish without state or church persecution: a perception which …
Interview with John Hedley Brooke
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John Hedley Brooke is President of the Science and Religion Forum as well as the author of the influential Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991). He has had a long career in the history of science and…
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- … in 1860, and that has tended to engender the notion that the Church of England was uniformly opposed …
- … like, A concern for things of this world as opposed to the church. That’s the Oxford English …
- … vestige of a fight between science and religion that the church was ultimately bound to lose. …
- … have been sharply divided, I think, within the Christian church. But it’s worth pointing out, I …
- … you, whom I look upon as the High priest of nature. But the Church would condemn me to the stake for …
- … the Christmas tree became the symbol of this Positivist Church. It even had its saints, and the …
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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- … I knew? I was raised as an atheist, but my parents did go to church. We were Unitarians. They went …
German poems presented to Darwin
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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…
