Download or read book Evolution Darwinian and Spencerian written by Raphael Meldola and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Evolution written by Raphael Meldola and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Evolution: Darwinian and Spencerian, the Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum, 8 December 1910 Among the great generalizations of the mid-Victorian era-that period which has witnessed such enormous advances in every department of natural science-the doctrine of Evolution stands out pre-eminently. With the foundation of that doctrine the names of our two great countrymen, Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, are indissolubly associated. The acceptance by this ancient University of a lectureship bearing the name of one of the founders of the modern doctrine is a sign of the times of the deepest significance in the intellectual development of this country. The century of Darwin's birth and the fiftieth j'ear of the publication of the Origin of Species were celebrated here and at Cambridge last year ; the tributes paid to his memory on those occasions are still fresh in our minds. Throughout the international chorus of admiration for the work of our great naturalist there rings out one clear note proclaiming that the method of viewing the process of organic development made known by Darwin and Wallace marked the beginning of a new epoch in human thought. The history of evolutionary' ideas in general, and of the special form of organic evolution associated with the names of Darwin and Wallace, has been fully dealt with by many able writers. It may be difficult to place the subject in any new light; nevertheless, on the present About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Evolution written by Raphael Meldola and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Evolution: Darwinian and Spencerian, the Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum, 8 December 1910 During the Darwinian celebration here last year it was claimed that through Lyell, who was a pupil of Buckland's, Oxford had some influence in moulding the career of Charles Darwin, whose indebtedness to the illustrious pioneer of modern Geology is notorious. Such influence as Buckland had in forming Lyell's geological views was, however, of a negative rather than of a positive character, for the pupil's reputation was ultimately made by overthrowing the teaching of his master. In a similarly indirect way, and also through Lyell, Oxford may be said to have influenced Herbert Spencer, since he first read the Principles of Geology in 1840, when twenty years old, and the arguments advanced in the early editions of that work against Lamarck's theory of animal development led him, as he has told us in his Autobiography, to a partial acceptance of Lamarck's views In a more direct way may Oxford claim also to have influenced Spencer, since Dean Mansel, the author of those well-known Bampton Lectures so freely quoted in the First Principles, was a distinguished member of this University. Whether Spencer's early acceptance of Lamarckism is responsible for his later tenacity in combating the views of that school of biologists founded by Weismann is a point which might serve for academic discussion, but whatever. See also the Filiation of Ideas in Duncan's Life and Letters, p. 536. View may be held concerning his attitude with respect to this question, there can be no doubt that his mind was given a bias towards development as a principle at this early stage in his career. Through all his subsequent writings the underlying idea of development can be traced with increasing depth and breadth, expanding in 1850 in his Social Statics to a foreshadowing of the general doctrine of Evolution.1 In 1852 his views on organic evolution had become so definite that he gave public expression to them in that well-known and powerful essay on The Development Hypothesis, first published in The Leader. In the Principles of Psychology, the first edition of which was published in 1855, the evolutionary principle was dominant. By 1858 - the year of the announcement of Natural Selection by Darwin and Wallace - he had conceived the general scheme and had sketched out the first draft of the prospectus of the Synthetic Philosophy, the final and amended syllabus having been issued in 1860. The work of Darwin and Spencer from that period, although moving along inde pendent lines, was directed towards the same end, not withstanding the diversity of the materials which they made use of and the differences in their methods of attack that end was the establishment of Evolution as a great natural principle or law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Evolution Darwinian and Spencerian the Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered 8 December 1910 written by Raphael MELDOLA and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evolution Darwinian and Spencerian the Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 8 December 1910 by Raphael Meldola written by Raphael Meldola and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Was Hitler a Darwinian written by Robert J. Richards and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In tracing the history of Darwin’s accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values from the understanding of nature. According to the standard interpretation, the principle of survival of the fittest has rendered human behavior, including moral behavior, ultimately selfish. Few doubt that Darwinian theory, especially as construed by the master’s German disciple, Ernst Haeckel, inspired Hitler and led to Nazi atrocities. In this collection of essays, Robert J. Richards argues that this orthodox view is wrongheaded. A close historical examination reveals that Darwin, in more traditional fashion, constructed nature with a moral spine and provided it with a goal: man as a moral creature. The book takes up many other topics—including the character of Darwin’s chief principles of natural selection and divergence, his dispute with Alfred Russel Wallace over man’s big brain, the role of language in human development, his relationship to Herbert Spencer, how much his views had in common with Haeckel’s, and the general problem of progress in evolution. Moreover, Richards takes a forceful stand on the timely issue of whether Darwin is to blame for Hitler’s atrocities. Was Hitler a Darwinian? is intellectual history at its boldest.
Download or read book The Emergence and Evolution of Religion written by Jonathan H. Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading theorists and empirical researchers, this book presents new ways of addressing the old question: Why did religion first emerge and then continue to evolve in all human societies? The authors of the book—each with a different background across the social sciences and humanities—assimilate conceptual leads and empirical findings from anthropology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary sociology, neurology, primate behavioral studies, explanations of human interaction and group dynamics, and a wide range of religious scholarship to construct a deeper and more powerful explanation of the origins and subsequent evolutionary development of religions than can currently be found in what is now vast literature. While explaining religion has been a central question in many disciplines for a long time, this book draws upon a much wider array of literature to develop a robust and cross-disciplinary analysis of religion. The book remains true to its subtitle by emphasizing an array of both biological and sociocultural forms of selection dynamics that are fundamental to explaining religion as a universal institution in human societies. In addition to Darwinian selection, which can explain the biology and neurology of religion, the book outlines a set of four additional types of sociocultural natural selection that can fill out the explanation of why religion first emerged as an institutional system in human societies, and why it has continued to evolve over the last 300,000 years of societal evolution. These sociocultural forms of natural selection are labeled by the names of the early sociologists who first emphasized them, and they can be seen as a necessary supplement to the type of natural selection theorized by Charles Darwin. Explanations of religion that remain in the shadow cast by Darwin’s great insights will, it is argued, remain narrow and incomplete when explaining a robust sociocultural phenomenon like religion.
Download or read book Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life written by Mark Francis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) was a colossus of the Victorian age. His works ranked alongside those of Darwin and Marx in the development of disciplines as wide ranging as sociology, anthropology, political theory, philosophy and psychology. In this acclaimed study of Spencer, the first for over thirty years and now available in paperback, Mark Francis provides an authoritative and meticulously researched intellectual biography of this remarkable man that dispels the plethora of misinformation surrounding Spencer and shines new light on the broader cultural history of the nineteenth century. In this major study of Spencer, the first for over thirty years, Mark Francis provides an authoritative and meticulously researched intellectual biography of this remarkable man. Using archival material and contemporary printed sources, Francis creates a fascinating portrait of a human being whose philosophical and scientific system was a unique attempt to explain modern life in all its biological, psychological and sociological forms. Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life fills what is perhaps the last big biographical gap in Victorian history. An exceptional work of scholarship it not only dispels the plethora of misinformation surrounding Spencer but shines new light on the broader cultural history of the nineteenth century. Elegantly written, provocative and rich in insight it will be required reading for all students of the period.
Download or read book Herbert Spencer written by John Offer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set traces Herbert Spencer's influence, from his contemporaries to the present day. Contributions come from across the social science disciplines and are often taken from sources which are difficult to access.
Download or read book Social Darwinism in American Thought 1860 1915 written by Richard Hofstadter and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Darwinism in American Thought examines the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for social thought and political action. Theorists such as Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner adopted the idea of the struggle for existence as justification for the evils—as well as the benefits—of laissez-faire modern industrial society. Others, such as William James and John Dewey, argued that human planning was needed to direct social development and improve on the natural order. Hofstadter's classic study of the ramifications of Darwinism is a major analysis of the social philosophies that animated intellectual movements of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.
Download or read book The Evolutionary Synthesis written by Ernst Mayr and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biology was forged into a single, coherent science only within living memory. In this volume the thinkers responsible for the "modern synthesis" of evolutionary biology and genetics come together to analyze that remarkable event. In a new Preface, Ernst Mayr calls attention to the fact that scientists in different biological disciplines varied considerably in their degree of acceptance of Darwin's theories. Mayr shows us that these differences were played out in four separate periods: 1859 to 1899, 1900 to 1915, 1916 to 1936, and 1937 to 1947. He thus enables us to understand fully why the synthesis was necessary and why Darwin's original theory--that evolutionary change is due to the combination of variation and selection--is as solid at the end of the twentieth century as it was in 1859.
Download or read book Social Darwinism in American Thought written by Richard Hofstadter and published by . This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the impact of Darwin on thinkers throughout the gilded Age and the Progressive era, 'Social Darwinism' shows how a politically neutral scientific theory has been adapted with skillful rhetoric to contradictory purposes.
Download or read book Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture written by Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.
Download or read book Evolution and Victorian Culture written by Bernard V. Lightman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays from leading scholars, the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture is explored for the first time, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences. Rather than focusing simply on evolution and literature or art, this volume brings together essays exploring the impact of evolutionary ideas on a wide range of cultural activities including painting, sculpture, dance, music, fiction, poetry, cinema, architecture, theatre, photography, museums, exhibitions and popular culture. Broad-ranging, rather than narrowly specialized, each chapter provides a brief introduction to key scholarship, a central section exploring original insights drawn from primary source material, and a conclusion offering overarching principles and a projection towards further areas of research. Each chapter covers the work of significant individuals and groups applying evolutionary theory to their particular art, both as theorists and practitioners. This comprehensive examination of topics sheds light on larger and previously unknown Victorian cultural patterns.
