Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Apache Server at dcp-public.lib.cam.ac.uk Port 443
Search:
in keywords
2 Items
4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire
Summary
< Back to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, in which he set out to explain the far-reaching significance of Darwin’s and Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theories. He…
Matches: 6 hits
- … to Introduction In 1874 the Harvard philosopher John Fiske published his magnum opus, …
- … cartoon by the famous Thomas Nast, entitled ‘Professor John Fisk [sic] flys the evolution kite in …
- … adds that ‘The unknowable is the kite, the string of the ball is evolution, the rolls of paper are …
- … Darwin himself in London in 1873 and was invited to Down in 1879 and 1880. When Cosmic Philosophy …
- … The Daily Graphic 5: 474 (12 Sept. 1874), front page. John Fiske, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy …
- … inviting Fiske to Down House: DCP-LETT-12098 (10 June 1879) and DCP-LETT-12606 (14 May [1880]). John …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
Summary
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…
Matches: 8 hits
- … had concealed this in his preface to his and Krause’s 1879 book Erasmus Darwin . Although Darwin …
- … eager to send his draft to the printers without delay, asked John Murray, his publisher, to make an …
- … laboratory. The Lake District may have reminded Darwin of John Ruskin, who lived there. Sending the …
- … ). His scientific friends, however, did not agree. Both John Lubbock and Hooker asked for Darwin’s …
- … about the year 1840(?) on all our minds’ ( letter to John Lubbock, [18 September 1881] ). When …
- … on 27 May . Romanes assured Darwin that the artist, John Collier, Huxley’s son-in-law, was ‘such a …
- … Leopold Würtenberger, who had received £100 from Darwin in 1879 to continue his work on the …
- … Darwin told his old Cambridge University friend John Price on 27 December . As Darwin rejoiced in …
