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Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … critiques of his views. ‘One cannot expect fairness in a Reviewer’, Darwin commented to Hooker after …
- … began to fly’. His ‘dearly beloved’ theory suffered a series of attacks, the most vicious of which …
- … smashed’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 July [1860] ). (A chronological list of all the reviews …
- … list. Adam Sedgwick, not surprisingly, attacked the book on a number of fronts. But it was his …
- … Above all else Darwin prided himself on having developed a theory that explained several classes of …
- … statement in his March review that natural selection was a hypothesis, not a theory, therefore also …
- … ‘It seems to me that an hypothesis is developed into a theory solely by explaining an ample lot …
- … ). To those who objected that his theory could not be a vera causa, he similarly stated that ‘it …
- … readily admitted that his failure to discuss this point was a ‘most serious omission’ in his book …
- … about global change. Darwin also knew that Lyell was a powerful potential ally. Indeed, the letters …
- … selection. Even Huxley, an avowed supporter, proved a formidable critic. Huxley extolled the …
- … whereas sterility had long been recognised by naturalists as a criterion of specific difference. He …
- … lecture irritating and ultimately considered it more a failure than a success ( see letter to J. D. …
- … because more accustomed to reasoning.’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 18 May 1860 ). Darwin …
- … by his theory—and once staggered, he believed, it was only a matter of time before a person would …
- … supported his theory. Even Carpenter, whom he included as a proponent in this group, offered only …
- … selection of chance variations being able to produce such a marvellously perfected structure as the …
- … for highly adapted organs had sometimes given even him a ‘cold shudder’. Yet it was more trifling …
- … discomfort. As he readily admitted to Gray: ‘The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I …
- … comfort from news that the doyen of embryology, Karl Ernst von Baer, had expressed support for …
- … next year and published the results of the orchid study in 1862. Back to the origin of sex: …
- … He presented the results of his study in a paper of 1862 and in The different forms of flowers on …
- … Edward Cresy; and Cresy’s acquaintances August Wilhelm von Hofmann, the renowned German organic …
