Evolution
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- Created on: 20-05-14 09:29
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- Evolution
- Religion
- conflct largely institutional struggle and focal point = education reform
- Huxley v Wilberforce,
- Asa Grey and Kingsley (Water Babies) support = glorifying God
- Morallity naturalised? Soul? = worries of Lyell and Sedgwick
- conflct largely institutional struggle and focal point = education reform
- Humanity
- Hunt, pro-slavery and imperialist
- Mans status: one species? animal?
- ***** Question parallel woman question
- Ethnological = Prichard, monogenism, Quaker, progressive
- Anthropological = Hunt, physical, polygenist, racist, imperialist, anti-Darwin
- Popular
- Vestiges
- evolution now on table, worries = questioned both religious and secular authorities
- Popularisation tension = gathering support while maintaining authority
- terms elite and amateur forming through this struggle
- Popularisation tension = gathering support while maintaining authority
- evolution now on table, worries = questioned both religious and secular authorities
- Punch Monekyana poem
- Owen v Huxley = public sphere
- Owen v Huxley = public sphere
- Vestiges
- Nature as a Political Tool
- Radicalism
- Lamarck, notion of self-improvement, rising up of working-classes
- Conservatism
- Malthus, natural justification for 1834 New Poor Law
- (Liberal approach) 'Improve' working-class, SDUK, Mechanic's Institutes
- Huxley, educational reform
- Hunt, pro-slavery and imperialist
- Fed into existing debates
- Bridgewater Treastise, 1833, science as compatible with the status quo
- Radicalism
- Darwin
- Inspiration = Humboldt travel, Herschell vocation, Lyell gradualism, Paley adaptation, Malthus political economy, Whewell philosophy
- Social resources = cambridge connection to Admiralty, Apes, Vestiges, position within Royal Society and Geological Society, ****** at Kew, gentleman image
- Progress
- Degeneration? Terrors of France, dangerous notions, poverty, Malthus address issue
- Time more prominent role in theories = geology, cosmology, evolution
- Steam engine, electrical display = public faced with fruits of science
- Religion
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