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  • Darwin himself was agnostic having lost his religious beliefs upon the tragic death of his favorite daughter, but the great American botanist Asa Gray, who favored natural selection and wrote a book entitled Darwiniana, was a devout Christian.

    The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006

  • Darwin himself was agnostic having lost his religious beliefs upon the tragic death of his favorite daughter, but the great American botanist Asa Gray, who favored natural selection and wrote a book entitled Darwiniana, was a devout Christian.

    The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006

  • _Evolution in Biology_, 1878 ( "Darwiniana," p.  210), where the paragraphs translated above are quoted in the original.

    Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work 1872

  • I have entitled this volume "Darwiniana" because the pieces republished in it either treat of the ancient doctrine of Evolution, rehabilitated and placed upon a sound scientific foundation, since and in consequence of, the publication of the "Origin of Species;" or they attempt to meet the more weighty of the unsparing criticisms with which that great work was visited for several years after its appearance; or they record the impression left by the personality of Mr. Darwin on one who had the privilege and the happiness of enjoying his friendship for some thirty years; or they endeavour to sum up his work and indicate its enduring influence on the course of scientific thought.

    Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • While collecting his "Darwiniana" for the second volume, he wrote to Mr. Clodd: ”]

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • While collecting his "Darwiniana" for the second volume, he wrote to Mr. Clodd: --]

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

  • Remains from the Neanderthal, "and later, dealing with" Criticisms on the 'Origin of Species'"(" Collected Essays "2 page 80" Darwiniana "), he gently but firmly dispersed several misconceptions of his old friend

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Science and Arts, "September 1860," Design versus Necessity, "reprinted in Asa Gray's" Darwiniana, "1876, page 62.) number of the" American

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845

  • Cuvier proved that "animals cannot be arranged in a single series, but that there are several distinct plans of organisation to be observed among them, no one of which, in its highest and most complicated modification, leads to any of the others" (Huxley's "Darwiniana," page

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845

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