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Shaw is a Vesuvius of eloquent rhetoric. But his ideas are borrowed, chiefly from Nietzsche, Ibsen, Marx, Darwin, Wagner and William Blake. A grand proselytizer, he was to those men what St. Paul was to Christ...
...scientist pouring foul-looking glop from one test tube into another. But revealing thought in action is exactly what the creators of this new BBC series have done, and the size of their achievement is indicated in the title. The mind they are portraying is that of Charles Darwin; the idea they are presenting is the evolution of life itself...
...series centers on Darwin's service as naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, which spent five years in the early 1830s charting and surveying the waters off the coasts of South America. It was the chief event of his life. Though he had little formal scientific training, the young man, played with athletic gusto by Malcolm Stoddard, had an "enlarged curiosity," as his uncle phrased it. Darwin's native skepticism turned the voyage into a fresh, vigorous inquiry into the nature of things, and the Beagle carried not only him but mankind into a new era of understanding...
...inquiry, from his discovery of the fossils of extinct reptiles in Patagonia to his speculations on the origins of the ancient, giant turtles of the Galapagos Islands. Slowly, step by careful step, his theory of natural selection takes shape. As laid out with elegant precision by Writer Robert Reid, Darwin's thought process steadily builds suspense, even though the outcome has been known for 120 years. Nothing is as dramatic as the unfolding of an idea so important that it fundamentally alters the way man looks at himself and his world...
...Darwin is a good start to the new year. Not the least of its virtues is that it gives viewers the innocent eyes of children - or explorers. It enables them to see the world as Darwin did, a place of delights and horrors, wonders and excitements. - Gerald Clarke