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The life and letters of Charles Darwin - including an autobiographical chapter (1896) (14596631659)
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Title: The life and letters of Charles Darwin : including an autobiographical chapter
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 Darwin, Francis, Sir, 1848-1925
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University
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a. Of. osTIa/x^ (From the Century Magazine. II THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN Including an Autobiographical Chapter EDITED BY HIS SON FRANCIS DARWIN IN TWO VOLUMESVOL. I NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1896 Authorized Edition. THE LIBRARY PROVO, UTAH PREFACE. In choosing letters for publication I have beenlargely guided by the wish to illustrate my fatherspersonal character. But his life was so essentially oneof work, that a history of the man could not be writ-ten without following closely the career of the author.Thus it comes about that the chief part of the bookfalls into chapters whose titles correspond to thenames of his books. In arranging the letters I have adhered as far aspossible to chronological sequence, but the characterand variety of his researches make a strictly chrono-logical order an impossibility. It was his habit towork more or less simultaneously at several subjects.Experimental work was often carried on as a refresh-ment or variety, while books entailinlifelettersofcha1896darw
Charles Darwin (1809—1882), English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. An affable country gentleman, Darwin at first shocked religious Victorian society by suggesting that animals and humans shared a common ancestry. However, his nonreligious biology appealed to the rising class of professional scientists, and by the time of his death evolutionary imagery had spread through all of science, literature, and politics. Darwin, himself an agnostic, was accorded the ultimate British accolade of burial in Westminster Abbey, London.
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