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Contents
- Contradictions of the Enlightenment: Darwin, Freud, Einstein
- The Classical Synthesis
- The Advance of Medical Theory and Treatments
- Geology
- Biology: Red in Tooth and Claw
- Reactions to Darwin
- Social Darwinism
- Physics: The End of the Classical Synthesis
- Astronomy
- Psychology: The Obscurity of the Mind
- Philosophical Reflections: The End of Reason?
- Literature: Humanity's Heart of Darkness?
- Visual Arts: What to Do After Photography?
Contradictions of the
Enlightenment:
Darwin, Freud, Einstein
- SUMMARY: Late 19th Century
Science and Culture
- WEB See History of Science
Sourcebook
- WEB Philosophers, Scientists
and Theologians of the 19th Century [At Internet Archive]
Names, dates, and major works (with text links where available)
- The Classical Synthesis
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867): Lectures on the Forces of
Matter, 1859 [At this Site]
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867): The Chemical History of A
Candle, 1860 [At this Site]
- 2ND John Tyndall: Faraday as a
Discoverer, 1894, in chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania]
- Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)(1824-1907): Tides,
1882 [At this Site]
- Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)(1824-1907): Wave
Theory Of Light, 1884 [At this Site]
- Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz: On The
Conservation Of Force, 1863 [At this Site]
- Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz: Ice and
Glaciers, 1865 [At this Site]
- The Advance of Medical Theory and Treatments
- Geology
- Biology: Red in Tooth and Claw
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Voyage of the Beagle,
1845 [At Literature.Org][Full Text]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): On the Origin of Species,
1859 [At Literature.Org][Full Text]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): On
the Origin of Species, 1859, extracts [At WSU]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): On the Origin of Species,
1859, extracts [At Hanover]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The
Descent of Man, 1871 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Descent of Man, 1871,
excerpts [At this Site]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Descent of Man,
1871, excerpts on Sexual Selection [At this Site]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The
Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals [At Project Gutenberg]
- Reactions to Darwin
- Samuel Wilberforce: On Darwin's Origin of
Species, 1860 [At this Site]
A negative reaction.
- St. George Jackson Mivart (1827-1900): On the Genesis of the
Species, 1871 [At this Site]
Mivart was a Catholic convert who wrote a noted reply to the Darwinian thesis, which
he did not dismiss out of hand, in 1871. In 1876, Pope Pius IX conferred on him the degree
of doctor of philosophy.
- J. H. Gladstone: Points of Supposed Collision Between
the Scriptures and Natural Science, 1872 [At this Site]
A lecture given at the behest of the Christian Evidence Society, in support of
Christianity against the assault of the New Science upon Biblical authority.
- Social Darwinism
- Herbert Spencer (1820-1903): Progess: Its Law and Causes,
1857, excerpts [At this Site]
Social Darwinism by its founder. Note the date!
- Herbert Spencer (1820-1903): First Principles,
1862 [At McMaster][Full Text]
- Walter Bagehot: The Use of Conflict, 1872 [At this Site]
An application of evolutionary thought to military conflict.
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895): The Method of Scientific
Investigation, 1863 [At this Site]
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825-95): Science and Culture,
1880 [At this Site]
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825-95): The Struggle for
Existence, 1888 [At this Site]
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895): Evolution and Ethics, 1894.
[At Project Gutenberg] [Full text]
- Andrew White: The
Warfare of Science and Theology in Christendom 1898 [At Hanover]
- Karl Pearson: National Life From the Standpoint of Science,
1900 [At this Site]
- William Graham Sumner (1840-1910): The Challenge of Facts,
pub. 1914 [At this Site]
An American social Darwinist mixes on the family and Socialism.
- Lothrup Stoddard: The Revolt
Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man, 1922 [At Patrick Henry Online]
Practical social darwinism.
- 2ND Robert M. Young: The Impact of Darwin on Conventional
Thought [At Human Nature]
- Physics: The End of the Classical Synthesis
- Astronomy
- Simon Newcomb (1835-1909): Extent of The Universe,
1884 [At this Site]
- Percival Lowell (1855-1916): Mars, 1895, in
chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania]
- A.S. Eddington (1882-1944): Stars and Atoms,
1926 in chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania]
- James Nasmyth: Autobiography,
1897, in chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania]
- Psychology: The Obscurity of the Mind
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Philosophical
Reflections: The End of Reason?
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Literature: Humanity's
Heart of Darkness?
- Mathew Arnold (1822-88): Dover Beach, c. 1867 [At Toronto]
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): The
Picture of Dorian Gray [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): Heart of Darkness
[At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): Heart
of Darkness, 1899 [At Gaslight][Original Magazine Version]
- Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim
[At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky: Marcel
Proust, 1924, from Revolutionary Silhouttes [At Marxists.org]
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926): Poems, in
English and German [At Internet Archive, from Norconnect]
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Visual Arts: What to
Do After Photography?
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