Word: darwin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...state of things in this study, is Freeman's well-known definition of History as past Politics; Politics as present History. This is the principle which animates the new study. Its method is found in an adaptation of the modern scientific method of Agassiz, of Humboldt, and of Darwin, to the past and present facts of man's political existence. The works of Freeman, of Sir Henry Maine, of Von Holst, are of this school...
...institution which can claim Goldsmith, Walter Scott, Carlyle, and Darwin among its alumni and can say that Niebuhr came from Germany to spend a year within its walls is of no mean repute. It is pleasant to notice that in its three-hundredth year the number of students is greater than ever before, having reached an aggregate of 3,341, more than half of whom are in its medical department. Nearly one-third are in the department of arts, while the rest are jurists and theologians...
...Darwin's essay on "Instinct," which has recently been published, has awakened but little discussion. The general opinion seems to agree with Prof. Huxley, in that it is of very little importance, and had better have been left unpublished...
...sketch by Haig of Darwin's Study at Down House, Kent, has been placed in the library...
...recent sale of autographs in Paris, 1,430 f. was paid for a bundle of letters of Rouget de Lisle ; a letter of Darwin's brought 55 f. ; of Schiller, 100 f. ; Wagner, 100 f. ; George Sand, 120 f. ; Paganini, 50 f. ; Beranger, 49 f. ; and Gambetta...