Tag: Victorian England
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.”
Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith: A Postscript
As is the case with the Biblical parables of Jesus, this one is entirely self-explanatory and needs no further comment from myself.
Darwin and the Swinging 1860s
The threat which such thinking posed to theistic beliefs was not lost on the Roman Catholic Church when Pope Pius IX convened the First Vatican Council of 1869.
Darwin and Theomachy
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) provides the closest chronological fit with Darwin.
Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars
As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.”