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Charles Darwin •
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ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION


The First edition. 1859. Darwin called it his “abominable volume” during the writing, but upon publication it became “my child”

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 Dinesh
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Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life ; (1859) is as quintessentially Vioctorian as the Great Exhibition or the Albert Hall. its thesis is based upon the twin imperatives of struggle and competition, and in the consequent race of life the ‘northern forms were enabled to beat the less powerful southern forms’. There is nothing here of atonement, redemption or grace. It is a dark world indeed, dominated by the necessity of labour and the appetite for power, in which combat and slaughter are the principal components. To see Victorian civilization from the vantage point of Charles Darwin is to see it more clearly. He has also adopted Malthus’s doctrine that populations grow faster than their means of subsistence, and are thus doomed to extinction. This also is a key to Victorian melancholy, which was perhaps as influential as Victorian optimism. ~ Page 34

DOMINION
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 Dinesh
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Few books are as frequently identified with their year of publication as Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’, is with 1859. Long anticipated among his colleagues and friends, explosive in argument, the book was immediately celebrated and despised. It remains so to this day. Its model for evolution famously implicitly proposed that humans emerged out of apes. The idea was not new, and some scientists had suspected monsters and other beings (real or imagined) might be either offshoots or intermediary species. . . . . Page 75

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