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          id: 2010
      author: Darwin, Charles
       title: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
        date: None
       words: 22822
      flesch: 63
     summary: I became also acquainted with several other men older than me, who did not care much about science, but were friends of Henslow. Yet these phenomena are so conspicuous that, as I declared in a paper published many years afterwards in the 'Philosophical Magazine' ('Philosophical Magazine,' 1842.), a house burnt down by fire did not tell its story more plainly than did this valley.
    keywords: book; cambridge; day; facts; father; good; henslow; life; man; men; mind; plants; pleasure; school; science; society; species; subject; thought; time; voyage; work; years
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        item: #2 of 10
          id: 2089
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: On the Reception of the 'Origin of Species'
        date: None
       words: 9279
      flesch: 48
     summary: We have not even the excuse that, thirty years ago, Mr. Darwin was an obscure novice, who had no claims on our attention. Confession unaccompanied by penitence, however, affords no ground for mitigation of judgment; and the kindliness with which Mr. Darwin speaks of his assailant, Bishop Wilberforce (vol. ii.), is so striking an exemplification of his singular gentleness and modesty, that it rather increases one's indignation against the presumption of his critic.)
    keywords: creation; darwin; doctrine; evolution; lyell; man; nature; origin; present; science; species; theory; time
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        item: #3 of 10
          id: 2921
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: The Present Condition of Organic Nature Lecture I. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Species"
        date: None
       words: 6891
      flesch: 52
     summary: So that, you see, there comes out this strange conclusion as the result of our investigations, that the Horse, when examined and compared with other animals, is found by no means to stand alone in nature; but that there are an enormous number of other creatures which have backbones, ribs, and legs, and other parts arranged in the same general manner, and in all their formation exhibiting the same broad peculiarities. But there are multitudes of other animals, such as crabs, lobsters, spiders, and so on, which we term Annulosa.
    keywords: animal; body; bones; horse; living; matter; organic; parts; world
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        item: #4 of 10
          id: 2922
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: The Past Condition of Organic Nature Lecture II. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Species"
        date: None
       words: 6766
      flesch: 53
     summary: It is, indeed, a most remarkable fact, that it is quite an exceptional case to find a skeleton of any one of all the thousands of wild land animals that we know are constantly being killed, or dying in the course of nature: they are preyed on and devoured by other animals or die in places where their bodies are not afterwards protected by mud. There are other animals existing in the sea, the shells of which form exceedingly large deposits.
    keywords: animals; earth; history; mud; nature; record; sea; time
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        item: #5 of 10
          id: 2923
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: The Method by Which the Causes of the Present and Past Conditions of Organic Nature Are to Be Discovered; the Origination of Living Beings Lecture III. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Species"
        date: None
       words: 8412
      flesch: 56
     summary: He sees an enormous mass of facts and laws relating to organic beings, which stand on the same good sound foundation as every other natural law; and therefore, with this mass of facts and laws before us, therefore, seeing that, as far as organic matters have hitherto been accessible and studied, they have shown themselves capable of yielding to scientific investigation, we may accept this as proof that order and law reign there as well as in the rest of nature; and the man of science says nothing to objectors of this sort, but supposes that we can and shall walk to a knowledge of the origin of organic nature, in the same way that we have walked to a knowledge of the laws and principles of the inorganic world. There are many men who, though knowing absolutely nothing of the subject with which they may be dealing, wish, nevertheless, to damage the author of some view with which they think fit to disagree.
    keywords: air; hypothesis; kind; life; man; nature; phenomena; way
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        item: #6 of 10
          id: 2924
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: The Perpetuation of Living Beings, Hereditary Transmission and Variation Lecture IV. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Species"
        date: None
       words: 6512
      flesch: 54
     summary: That was a case of spontaneous variation. There are all sorts of intermixtures and intermediate conditions between the two, where complexion, or beauty, or fifty other different peculiarities belonging to either side of the house, are reproduced in other members of the same family.
    keywords: case; great; offspring; perpetuation; sheep; tendency; variation
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        item: #7 of 10
          id: 2925
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: The Conditions of Existence as Affecting the Perpetuation of Living Beings Lecture V. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Species"
        date: None
       words: 7571
      flesch: 53
     summary: It is the same in nature; every species has its bridge of Beresina; it has to fight its way through and struggle with other species; and when well nigh overpowered, it may be that the smallest chance, something in its colour, perhaps--the minutest circumstance--will turn the scale one way or the other. Suppose that by a variation of the black race it had produced the white man at any time--you know that the Negroes are said to believe this to have been the case, and to imagine that Cain was the first white man, and that we are his descendants--suppose that this had ever happened, and that the first residence of this human being was on the West Coast of Africa. And if you turn to other animals there is just the same thing.
    keywords: animals; case; conditions; nature; plant; species; varieties
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        item: #8 of 10
          id: 2926
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: A Critical Examination of the Position of Mr. Darwin's Work, "On the Origin of Species," in Relation to the Complete Theory of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature Lecture VI. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Species"
        date: None
       words: 7010
      flesch: 46
     summary: The first question Mr. Darwin does not touch; he does not deal with it at all; but he says--given the origin of organic matter--supposing its creation to have already taken place, my object is to show in consequence of what laws and what demonstrable properties of organic matter, and of its environments, such states of organic nature as those with which we are acquainted must have come about. And, although I have had frequent occasion to quote Mr. Darwin--as all persons hereafter, in speaking upon these subjects, will have occasion to quote his famous book on the Origin of Species,--you must yet remember that, wherever I have quoted him, it has not been upon theoretical points, or for statements in any way connected with his particular speculations, but on matters of fact, brought forward by himself, or collected by himself, and which appear incidentally in his book.
    keywords: darwin; hypothesis; man; nature; phenomena; species
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        item: #9 of 10
          id: 2929
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: The Origin of Species From 'The Westminster Review', April 1860
        date: None
       words: 14184
      flesch: 41
     summary: On the other hand, there can be no doubt that the individuals of many natural species are either absolutely infertile if crossed with individuals of other species, or, if they give rise to hybrid offspring, the hybrids so produced are infertile when paired together. But it is not as yet proved that a race ever exhibits, when crossed with another race of the same species, those phenomena of hybridization which are exhibited by many species when crossed with other species.
    keywords: animals; darwin; fact; hypothesis; living; nature; offspring; origin; phenomena; plants; present; science; selection; species; stock; way
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        item: #10 of 10
          id: 2930
      author: Huxley, Thomas Henry
       title: Criticisms on "The Origin of Species" From 'The Natural History Review', 1864
        date: None
       words: 6602
      flesch: 53
     summary: For the notion that every organism has been created as it is and launched straight at a purpose, Mr. Darwin substitutes the conception of something which may fairly be termed a method of trial and error. On the contrary, Mr. Darwin writes (Summary of Chap.
    keywords: conditions; darwin; flourens; forms; kolliker; nature; organisms; professor
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