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4.24 'Daily Graphic', Nast satire

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< 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…

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  • … Darwin himself in London in 1873 and was invited to Down in 1879 and 1880. When 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

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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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  • … had concealed this in his preface to his and Krause’s 1879 book Erasmus Darwin . Although Darwin …
  • … Leopold Würtenberger, who had received £100 from Darwin in 1879 to continue his work on the …