Tag: Quarterly Review
“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Excerpts from Samuel Wilberforce on Darwin
“We have objected to the views with which we have been dealing solely on scientific grounds.”
What Really Happened at the Huxley-Wilberforce Debate?
The stereotype portraying Wilberforce as the pompous bishop rejecting Darwin on theological grounds is easily dispelled.
The Outsider: Alfred Russel Wallace’s Reputation in the Darwinian Era
Was Alfred Wallace a “crazy” crank? Was he an undisciplined “dilettante” bemused by every fringe belief he encountered?
Darwin’s Reticence: How on Earth Did the Origin of Species Ever Get Published?
Even Darwin would be aghast at what the world has made of a mere abstract that he was almost pathologically ambivalent about ever publishing.
Listen: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
How did Charles Darwin react to Wallace’s argument for design? Historian Michael Flannery joins Tom Woodward to explain.