Tag: Patrick Matthew
Parables from Nature: A Profile of Margaret Gatty
Although she refrained from challenging Darwin publicly, Margaret had strong thoughts of opposition to Darwin’s proposals.
Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity
It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited.
Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic
Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.”