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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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  • … Wesleyan revival only that it is had to order— Two Mission priests Mr. Maclagan 3 & Mr. …
  • … day in the church with one or two sermons by the Mission priests ending with a mission meeting in …

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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  • … he had ‘the bump of reverence developed enough for ten priests’. Even Henry Fairfield Osborn, a …

4.55 Harry Furniss caricature

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< Back to Introduction Harry Furniss’s caricature of Darwin is in a set of seventy-two pen and ink drawings by this artist now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. They were acquired in 1947-8 from Theodore Cluse, who, acting…

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  • … that I had the bump of reverence developed enough for ten priests.” And at the time he was an …

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…

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  • … Created his fate with endless labour: So let the priests keep howling, We don’t believe, …
  • … “So you, humanity, were always a game Played by priests and miracle makers! An illusion, …

4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy

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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…

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  • … showed ‘the bump of Reverence developed enough for ten Priests’. Lorenzo Niles Fowler’s analysis of …

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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  • … ] I have to add that this doubtless has resulted from the Priests of that doctrine – knowing – …
  • … been ever committed in Ireland – to wit, that of – “Priests intent upon their own worldly interest – …
  • … As for the attention or inattention paid to the “priests’” injunctions – it has to be remarked, that …
  • … – so leaves the work of praying to be performed by the Priests ^who living on [slaves at ease] …
  • … “The Church will be “really in danger” – and its priests and supporters at their wits’ end – because …

The writing of "Origin"

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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…

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  • … its scientific merits. Darwin told Hooker, it ‘sets the Priests at me & leaves me to their …

Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers

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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…

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  • … who makes his debut under the kindly protection of the high priests of science’ ( letter from …

Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin

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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…

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  • … its scientific merits. Darwin told Hooker, it ‘sets the Priests at me & leaves me to their …
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