The Writings of Charles Darwin (original) (raw)
The Voyage Of The Beagle
- How did the stones get there? A Darwinian Act of Interpretation
- Darwin and the Galápagos Islands: An Annotated Guide to the Primary Texts
- The hills are shadows, and they flow from form to form, and nothing stands
- Proof from a peacock feather: Darwin on the ocellus
- “The warfare is too bloody to last”: Exterminating Indians in Argentina
- “I shall never again visit a slave-country”
- Darwin on the pains and pleasures of travel
- “So it is with ourselves” — Darwin, evolution, and moral philosophy
- “I never saw a more cheerless prospect”: Darwin climbs a mountain and tells us what he sees
- Darwin mentions mass death
- Darwin's attempts to describe tropical landscape
On the Origin of Species
- Introduction
- "An Historical Sketch Of The Progress Of Opinion On The Origin Of Species" (text)
- Darwin's Imagery: The Tree and the Tree of Life
Autobiography and Life and Letters
- Chapter II of Darwin's Autobiography
- Darwin almost becomes a clergyman
- “A bad earthquake at once destroys our oldest associations” Darwin experiences an earthquake
- Darwin's views of religion: his agnosticism and his reasons for rejecting Christianity
- Darwin's reticence about discussing his religious beliefs
- Darwin's reading and the loss of delight in poetry and painting
- Darwin on “the accuracy and fulness of Macaulay's memory”
- Darwin on Thomas Carlyle
- “We are absolutely at the extreme verge of the world” — the Darwins move to a house far from London
- Darwin on the novelty and originality of Natural Selection
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Web Resources
- The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (John van Wyhe's UK site)
Victorian Web Science Biology Charles Darwin Themes
Last modified 24 August 2013