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Lubbock, John. 1870a. The origin of civilisation and the primitive condition of man. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.

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  • … Lubbock, John. 1870a. The origin of civilisation and the primitive condition of man. …

Buckle, H. T. (1821–62)

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  • … on the history of English and European civilisation. ODNB . Bibliography ODNB : Oxford …
  • … London English Europe history of English and European civilisation Historian …

From Hensleigh Wedgwood   [1868–70?]

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Development of complex language does not require an early civilisation. [See Descent 1: 56ff.]

Author:  Hensleigh Wedgwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1868–70?]
Classmark:  DAR 80: 164–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7040

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  • … of complex language does not require an early civilisation. [See Descent 1: 56ff. ] …
  • … the argument in favour of an early civilisation from the complex nature of the rudest …
  • … language structure and its relationship to civilisation found in Wake 1868 . CD scored the …

Barbier, Edmond, trans. 1873. Les origines de la civilisation: état primitif de l’homme et moeurs des sauvages modernes. By John Lubbock. Paris: Librairie Germer-Baillière.

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  • … Edmond, trans. 1873. Les origines de la civilisation: état primitif de l’homme et moeurs …

Lubbock, John. 1867a. On the origin of civilisation and the primitive condition of man. [Read 26 November 1867.] Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London n.s. 6: 328–41.

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Lubbock, John. 1873b. Les origines de la civilisation: état primitif de l’homme et moeurs des sauvages modernes. Translated by Edmond Barbier. Paris: G. Baillière.

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  • … Lubbock, John. 1873b. Les origines de la civilisation: état primitif de l’homme et moeurs …

Whately, Richard. 1854. On the origin of civilisation. A lecture by his grace the archbishop of Dublin to the Young Men’s Christian Association. London.

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  • … Richard. 1854. On the origin of civilisation. A lecture by his grace the archbishop of …

Wilson, Daniel. 1862. Prehistoric man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world. 2 vols. Cambridge and London: Macmillan.

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  • … man: researches into the origin of civilisation in the old and the new world. 2 vols. …

To H. K. Rusden   [before 27 March 1875]

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Thanks for copy of lecture (Rusden 1874: Selection, natural and artificial, a lecture delivered in the Wangaratta Athenaeum by Mr. H. K. Rusden on Monday, October 26th, 1874) and essay (Rusden 1872: The treatment of criminals in relation to science, an essay read before the Royal Society of Victoria).

Comments on the essay.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Keylock Rusden
Date:  [before 27 Mar 1875]
Classmark:  Ovens and Murray Advertiser, 27 March 1875, p. 5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9705F

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  • … is no general tendency to progress in civilisation, which comes to nearly the same thing …
  • … societies attained a higher degree of civilisation than some later ones, and that …
  • … in historic times the progress of civilisation had been ‘intermittent’. Walter Bagehot …

Arnott, Neil. 1861. A survey of human progress, from the savage state to the highest civilisation yet attained. A progress as little perceived by the multitude in any age as is the slow growing of a tree by the children who play under its shade, but which is leading to a new condition of mankind on earth. London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts.

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  • … from the savage state to the highest civilisation yet attained. A progress as little …

To William Graham   3 July 1881

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Praises WG’s Creed of science.

He disagrees that the existence of natural laws implies purpose, but his "inmost conviction" is that "the Universe is not the result of chance". But then has horrid doubt whether convictions of man’s mind, which has been developed from lower animals, are at all trustworthy.

Believes natural selection is doing more for progress of civilisation than WG admits.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Graham
Date:  3 July 1881
Classmark:  DAR 144: 345
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13230

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  • … Believes natural selection is doing more for progress of civilisation than WG admits. …
  • … argued that the development of human civilisation depended upon great men, not natural …
  • … and doing more for the progress of civilisation than you seem inclined to admit. Remember …

From B. J. Sulivan   23 February 1874

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The Bishop of Falkland says the Fuegian natives’ health does not suffer through increased civilisation. Relates the Bishop’s observations on the state of Tierra del Fuego and its populace.

Author:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 177: 301
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9311

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  • … does not suffer through increased civilisation. Relates the Bishop’s observations on the …
  • … s questions about the influence of European civilisation on the Fuegians. See also letter …

To John Crawfurd   25 March [1861]

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Asks for information about JC’s essay, "On the relation of the domesticated animals to civilisation" [read at BAAS meeting 1859].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Crawfurd
Date:  25 Mar [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 299
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13786

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  • … On the relation of the domesticated animals to civilisation" [read at BAAS meeting 1859]. …

From G. C. Oxenden   8 April 1872

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Wild plants that live at the edges of civilisation, e.g., forest flowers growing on grazed land, are always reduced in size.

Author:  George Chichester Oxenden
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Apr 1872
Classmark:  DAR 173: 69
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8281

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  • … Wild plants that live at the edges of civilisation, e.g. , forest flowers growing on …

From P. G. King   25 February 1869

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CD’s queries on expression of aborigines were difficult to answer because he encounters mainly those touched by civilisation. Hopes CD did get answers.

Author:  Philip Gidley King
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Feb 1869
Classmark:  DAR 169: 28
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6635

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  • … because he encounters mainly those touched by civilisation. Hopes CD did get answers. …

From Patrick Matthew   3 December 1862

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Apologises for not writing last summer. Scientific progress is all but complete. Our civilisation will fall now that it has reached the peak of its development.

Author:  Patrick Matthew
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Dec 1862
Classmark:  DAR 171: 91
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3843

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  • … progress is all but complete. Our civilisation will fall now that it has reached the peak …

To J. D. Hooker   31 March [1858]

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Writing section on large and small genera [for Natural selection, ch. 4].

Huxley supersedes Owen on parthenogenesis.

Buckle’s History of civilisation in England extremely interesting.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  31 Mar [1858]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 230
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2248

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  • … on parthenogenesis. Buckle’s History of civilisation in England extremely interesting. …

From J. V. Carus   2 October 1870

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The outbreak of war and war work have interfered with JVC’s scientific work.

Publisher does not, however, think the war will hurt success of Descent in Germany, and JVC asks for corrected sheets for his use in translating it.

Wishes struggle between Romanic and Teutonic races could be fought out in a form more appropriate to their cultures and civilisation.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Oct 1870
Classmark:  DAR 161: 76
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7332

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  • … races could be fought out in a form more appropriate to their cultures and civilisation. …
  • … standing of their respective culture and civilisation. It is a most dreaful ‘struggle for …

To J. D. Hooker   23 February [1858]

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Fertilisation of clover by bees in New Zealand.

Uneasy about biggest genera and their varieties.

H. T. Buckle’s sophistry [History of civilisation in England (1857)].

Working on bees’ cells.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  23 Feb [1858]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 224
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2222

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  • … H. T. Buckle’s sophistry [ History of civilisation in England (1857)]. Working on bees’ …

To L. H. Morgan   7 June 1871

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Directions to Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Lewis Henry Morgan
Date:  7 June 1871
Classmark:  University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7808

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  • … s views on the development of human civilisation (see Correspondence vol.  18, letter from …
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St George Jackson Mivart

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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…

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  • … can co-exist with the most varied appliances of a complex civilisation.’ p. 77: ‘A deep debt …
  • … can co-exist with the most varied appliances of a complex civilisation.’ The Review thus …