Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
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Victorian Literature
INTRODUCTION
Charles Darwin has become an icon in our time, no less important than Columbus, Newton, Jefferson, Edison, Einstein, or Gates. He is seen as projecting out of the Victorian era like a colossus. The 1800’s are no less awe-inspiring than ours’ for its intellectual mindset and technological feats. Yet his m ....
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.... unsuccessful, but he loved beach combing with Dr Robert E. Grant, a sponge expert, Lamarckian evolutionist, a democrat and materialist, who trained Darwin in French-style invertebrate anatomy. At student clubs, where Darwin reported his observations, he saw fiery radicals censored for calling the mind a product of a material brain, and giving animals all of the human mental faculties. So, besides training in field geology and natural history th ....
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Number of words: 4386
Number of pages: 16 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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