Tag: South Sea Islands
Darwin’s John the Baptist
Catastrophism viewed the planet as having been molded by forces far more powerful than any observable at the present day.
The Evolution of Natural Selection
Remarkably, Darwin’s evolutionary ideas did not derive from his empirical observations in the South Seas or anywhere else.
Darwin and Milton: From Paradise Lost to the Origin of Species
Literary critic William Empson, in a famous study, described Satan as the de facto hero of the epic in a cosmic revolt against divine repression.