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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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- … his son George serious offence. Mivart had previously been a correspondent of Darwin’s, but had …
- … views of those associated with him, his reluctance to enter a public debate, the fierce loyalty of …
- … future to affect personal liberty in the matter of marriage. A better understanding of the …
- … the possibility of creating an elite who would intermarry as a way of improving the race; George …
- … with it was to introduce restrictions on marriage. As a first step, he argued, a divorce …
- … necessary isolation of the parent from the children would be a peculiarly bitter blow’ (p. 418). …
- … health, he thought, should also be attended to by requiring a clean bill of health in both parties …
- … check population. There is no hideous sexual criminality of Pagan days that might not be defended on …
- … a fresh demonstration of what France of the Regency and Pagan Rome long ago demonstrated; namely, …
- … it for publication in the next issue of the Quarterly ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 29 July 1874 …
- … kind of thing Murray would be likely to wish to circulate ( letter to G. H. Darwin, 1 August [1874] …
- … them explicitly, he might be thought to endorse them ( letter from G. H. Darwin, 5 August 1874 ). …
- … of encouraging licentiousness. A postscript to Darwin’s letter, which may belong to another letter, …
- … on board Darwin’s comments and sent a fair copy of his letter with his letter of 6 [August] 1874 …
- … vice to check population. There is no sexual criminality of Pagan days that might not be defended on …
- … a fresh demonstration of what France of the Regency, and Pagan Rome long ago, demonstrated; namely, …
- … Darwin that the words, ‘there is no sexual criminality of Pagan days which might not be defended on …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A vicious dispute over an anonymous …
- … von Humboldt’s 105th birthday, Darwin obliged with a reflection on his debt to Humboldt, whom he had …
- … one of the greatest men the world has ever produced. He gave a wonderful impetus to science by …
- … pleasures of shooting and collecting beetles ( letter from W. D. Fox, 8 May [1874] ). Such …
- … And … one looks backwards much more than forwards’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, 11 May [1874] ). …
- … was an illusory hope.— I feel very old & helpless’ ( letter to B. J. Sulivan, 6 January [1874] …
- … inferred that he was well from his silence on the matter ( letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October …
- … world. While Darwin was in London, his son George organised a séance at Erasmus’s house. The event …
- … in such rubbish’, he confided to Joseph Dalton Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 January [1874] …
- … William Henry Myers, and Thomas Henry Huxley, who sent a long report to Darwin with the spirit …
- … his, ‘& that he was thus free to perform his antics’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 29 January [1874 …
- … Coral reefs His son Horace had suggested a new edition of the coral book in December 1873, …
- … Hooker, and finally borrowed one from Charles Lyell ( letter to Smith, Elder & Co., 8 January …
- … himself of supporting the ‘hideous sexual criminality of Pagan days’ ([Mivart] 1874b, p. 70). …
- … in a few hours dissolve the hardest cartilage, bone & meat &c. &c.’ ( letter to W. D. …
- … whether at the ‘close of the putrefaction of flesh, skin &c, any substance is produced before …
- … details of an Australian variety of sundew ( letter from T. C. Copland, 23 June 1874 ). …
- … head that M r Spencer’s terms of equilibration &c always bother me & make everything less …
