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Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870 (Selected Letters of C. Darwin)

By Frederick Burkhardt , Alison M. Pearn , Samantha Evans

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521874122, 9780521874120, 9780511396663
Open Library ID
OL10438030M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2240296 bytes)
Series
Selected Letters of C. Darwin
Pages
334\334
Topic
Biology
Library
duansci.com
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-05-17 00:23:50

Description

These selected letters document that time after the publication of Origin of Species and reveal much about Darwin that few people know and understand.There are several letters to Asa Gray in America while the Civil War was raging-"I have begun to think whether it would not be well for the peace of the world, if you were to split up into two or three nations. " He was strongly opposed to slavery. He considered whether it would be better for a man of science to not have a wife and children for he then,"might work away like a Trojan." Here is an indication of the vast correspondence he carried on with sources of information from all over the world and also how much of that time he was ill, so much so that he spent whole days in bed and could get no work done. These letters are essential to knowing the man who changed our lives forever.

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