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Essays — First SeriesEssays — First Series There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole...
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The Great HungerThe Great Hunger For sheer havoc, there is no gale like a good northwester, when it roars in, through the long winter evenings, driving the spindrift before it between the rocky walls of the fjord. It churns the water to a froth of rushing...
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Two Penniless PrincessesTwo Penniless Princesses The battlements of a castle were, in disturbed times, the only recreation-ground of the ladies and play-place of the young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its...
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The Chinese Classics — ProlegomenaThe Chinese Classics — ProlegomenaThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally do...
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Evolution and Ethics, and Other EssaysEvolution and Ethics, and Other Essays The letters which are here collected together were published in the "Times" in the course of the months of December, 1890, and January, 1891. The circumstances which led me to write the first letter are sufficiently set forth...
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William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the BloodWilliam Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood I DESIRE this evening to give you some account of the life and labours of a very noble EnglishmanWilliam Harvey. William Harvey was born in the year 1578, and as he lived until...
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YeastYeast I HAVE selected to-night the particular subject of Yeast for two reasonsor, rather, I should say for three. In the first place, because it is one of the simplest and the most familiar objects with which we are acquainted. In the second place,...
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Coral and Coral ReefsCoral and Coral Reefs THE subject upon which I wish to address you to-night is the structure and origin of Coral and Coral Reefs. Under the head of "coral" there are included two very different things; one of them is that substance which I...
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Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of LifeGeological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life MERCHANTS occasionally go through a wholesome, though troublesome and not always satisfactory, process which they term "taking stock." After all the excitement of speculation, the pleasure of gain, and the pain of loss, the trader makes up...
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On the Study of ZoologyOn the Study of Zoology NATURAL HISTORY is the name familiarly applied to the study of the properties of such natural bodies as minerals, plants, and animals; the sciences which embody the knowledge man has acquired upon these subjects are commonly termed Natural Sciences,...
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On the Advisableness of Improving Natural KnowledgeOn the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge This time two hundred years agoin the beginning of January, 1666those of our forefathers who inhabited this great and ancient city, took breath between the shocks of two fearful calamities: one not quite past, although its fury...
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On Some Fossil Remains of ManOn Some Fossil Remains of Man Fig. 23.the Skull from the Cave of Engisviewed From The Right Side. 'a' Glabella, 'b' Occipital Protuberance, ('a' to 'b' Glabello-occipital Line), 'c' Auditory Foramen. Fig. 25.the Skull from the Neanderthal Cavern. A. Side, B. Front, and C....
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On the Relations of Man to the Lower AnimalsOn the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals Fig. 13.a. Egg of the Dog, With The Vitelline Membrane Burst, So As to Give Exit To the Yelk, The Germinal Vesicle (a), And Its Included Spot (b). B. C. D. E F. Successive Changes...
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Evidence as to Man's Place in NatureEvidence as to Man's Place in Nature Skeletons of the GIBBON. ORANG. CHIMPANZEE. GORILLA. MAN. 'Photographically reduced from Diagrams of the natural size (except that of the Gibbon, which was twice as large as nature), drawn by Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins from specimens in the...
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Criticisms on "The Origin of Species"Criticisms on "The Origin of Species" - From 'The Natural History Review', 1864 In the course of the present year several foreign commentaries upon Mr. Darwin's great work have made their appearance. Those who have perused that remarkable chapter of the 'Antiquity of Man,'...
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The Origin of SpeciesThe Origin of Species - From 'The Westminster Review', April 1860 MR. DARWIN'S long-standing and well-earned scientific eminence probably renders him indifferent to that social notoriety which passes by the name of success; but if the calm spirit of the philosopher have not yet...
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Time and Life: Mr. Darwin's "Origin of Species"Time and Life: Mr. Darwin's "Origin of Species" Everyone knows that that superficial film of the earths substance, hardly ten miles thick, which is accessible to human investigation, is composed for the most part of beds or strata of stone, the consolidated muds and...
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The Darwinian HypothesisThe Darwinian Hypothesis THERE is a growing immensity in the speculations of science to which no human thing or thought at this day is comparable. Apart from the results which science brings us home and securely harvests, there is an expansive force and latitude...
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A Critical Examination of the Position of Mr. Darwin's Work, "On the Origin of Species," in Relation to the Complete Theory of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic NatureA Critical Examination of the Position of Mr. Darwin's Work, "On the Origin of Species," in Relation to the Complete Theory of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature - Lecture VI. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical...
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The Conditions of Existence as Affecting the Perpetuation of Living BeingsThe Conditions of Existence as Affecting the Perpetuation of Living Beings - Lecture V. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Species" IN the last Lecture I endeavoured to prove to you that,...
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