[...]... noted on Darwin s return, the years of concentrated scientific observation had extended even the ridge of his eyebrows.3 Of all the extraordinary things Darwin gathered, the most striking were visual impressions of human diversity Wherever he went, Darwin categorized racial types: the tall Tehuelches of Patagonia; the 2 C Darwin to J D Hooker, 29 [May 1854], in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, ed... at larger narratives of evolutionary transformation These were so familiar to readers from Vestiges and other evolutionary epics that they scarcely needed elaborating In this particular case, however, Darwin had gone too far and failed to avoid being classed as a cosmic speculator 00 -Darwin- EW-Prelims.indd xxiii 9/18/08 1:44:59 PM xxiv Introduction Mind, Morals, and Man Just as Darwin had delayed publishing... and had good contacts in the scientific world Darwin, who was writing up his own theory, was appalled by the prospect of an ugly priority squabble A ‘delicate arrangement’ was 10 00 -Darwin- EW-Prelims.indd xx Notebook D: 134 – 5 in Charles Darwin s Notebooks, 374 9/18/08 1:44:58 PM Introduction xxi soon agreed among his friends, whereby both Wallace’s and Darwin s manuscripts were read at the Linnean... the Journal secured Darwin s reputation as a noted man of science and literary lion in the London salons It was thus in the context of the burgeoning programme of European imperial exploration that Darwin first came to public attention Darwin s status on the Beagle had been highly unusual, for he was not the ship’s naturalist, but a gentleman companion to the captain, Robert FitzRoy Darwin had special... morals on instinct rather than revealed truth Darwin s publisher, for example, advised against using the adjective ‘sexual’ in the title, guidance that resulted in the anodyne The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex.16 15 16 D: 123, Charles Darwin s Notebooks, 550 G Dawson, Darwin, Literature and Victorian Respectability (Cambridge, 2007), 35 00 -Darwin- EW-Prelims.indd xxv 9/18/08 1:44:59... motivated all Darwin s later work That these ambitions for the memoir are rarely acknowledged has to do with the fact that the Recollections, alone among Darwin s later writings, were not intended for publication during his lifetime Commenced soon after Darwin 00 -Darwin- EW-Prelims.indd xxvii 9/18/08 1:44:59 PM xxviii Introduction learned of the impending birth of his first grandchild, the text was written in... When Darwin s Recollections were published in 1887 as a chapter in The Life and Letters compiled by his son Francis, they crowned his 17 C Darwin to J V Carus, 17 July 1879, cited in J Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place (London, 2002), 427 18 The delicate problem of dealing with the religious passages in the manuscript led to a difficult family quarrel: see J Moore, ‘Of Love and Death: Why Darwin. .. meant that evolutionary discussion was both more diverse and more vocal Although some Protestants agreed with the Presbyterian Charles Hodge that ‘atheism’ was the answer to the title of his book, What is Darwinism?, most agreed with the Harvard botanist Asa Gray that Christianity could be accommodated with Darwinism Advocates for causes from the rights of women to reform of Judaism saw in Darwin s books... contents of Darwin s writings but heavily upon their reputation Such works enjoyed extraordinary sales in the newly reunited Germany, where rapid industrialization was built upon an impressive corps of university-trained scientists and engineers In many countries newly emerging onto the world scene, the classic evolutionary works were taken up with enthusiasm In Japan under the Meiji regime, evolutionary. .. which quickly became known as ‘Social Darwinism’, were widely canvassed throughout the industrialized world Capitalist entrepreneurs, especially in the United States, argued that their success reflected the laws of individual competition, and preached a ‘gospel of wealth’ based on evolutionary science It was not difficult to find support for such positions in Darwin s own writings As one of his books put it, . alt="" Evolutionary Writings 00 -Darwin- EW-Prelims.indd i00 -Darwin- EW-Prelims.indd i 9/18/08 1:44:53 PM9/18/08 1:44:53 PM This page intentionally left blank CHARLES DARWIN Evolutionary Writings Edited. vi Introduction vii Note on the Texts xxxviii Select Bibliography xl A Chronology of Charles Darwin xlvi EVOLUTIONARY WRITINGS journal of researches 1 Map of the Beagle voyage, 1831 – 1836 2 Journal of. 455 General Index 477 00 -Darwin- EW-Prelims.indd v00 -Darwin- EW-Prelims.indd v 9/18/08 1:44:55 PM9/18/08 1:44:55 PM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This anthology stems from my involvement with the Darwin Correspondence