Charles Darwin

The poems here, addressing the circumstances of Darwin 's life, employ a scaffolding of his own words, forcefully shaped, against a background of many other voices (including that of an orangutan in a zoo). They...

AG deals briskly and summarily with new scientific ideas, apparently with reference to Darwin 's Origin of Species (dating from fourteen years earlier). Mr Chetwynd, though he doubts the efficacy of the individual's direct line...

In Sic Vos Non VobiAC rejects accepted knowledge of the spiritual realm. Instead, the speaker sympathizes with the scientific community of Darwinian evolutionary theorists who search for Truth and Right with steadfast hearts in...

LB 's early interest in plants developed into her first publication. Her uncle John Leigh helped her develop her knowledge of botany, and LB won a national prize in the 1860s for a specimen...

Of the three poems named in the overall title, the first two employ ottava rima (rhyming abababcc), and the third a six-line stanza with one fewer ab. A Modern Apostle follows the career of the...

In The Tunnel Miriam begins to interrogate past and current scientific discourses on women. She is a highly critical reader of Social Darwinism , and of Patrick Geddes and his research assistant J. Arthur Thomson

The remaining, shorter poems in the volume continue to blend modern scientific and philosophical learning with traditional romantic themes. In many of them the touches of sardonic humour visible in the longer poems become the...

LSB privately printed Key Notes, her first, slim collection of verses, under the pseudonym Arbor Leigh, containing philosophical reflections on evolution.

DG 's essay presents a religiously-based argument emphasizing the importance of education and instruction for those with mental or physical disabilities. She reminds her readers that these conditions are to be looked upon as the...

The title piece, from April 1871, was an admiring review of Darwin 's The Descent of Man: she considered it doubtless one whose issue will make an era in the history of modern thought...

This essay embodies moments of what today would be called racism as it makes reference to social Darwinism (the theory originated by LSB 's friend Herbert Spencer , that extrapolates Darwinian evolutionary theory to justify...

Studies in General Science was written around the same time that the works of evolutionary theorists Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer were gaining popularity. With belief in traditional Christian doctrine now threatened by scientific discovery,...

Ross 's epilogue both praises FD 's work and seeks to recommend it by associating it with Darwin , John Wesley , and Voltaire .

The Ascent of Man was hailed in the press. The Academy reviewer wrote: A reviewer who is so fortunate as to light on a book like this, lays it down with regret, and fears that...

This was followed by Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot, 1873, and The George Eliot Birthday Book, 1878. Not all recognitions brought pleasure. A reference work called Men of the Time...