Re: [Marxism] New Socialist Pamphlets on Farming, Darwin

["farmelantj@xxxxxxxx" <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>]

Wikipedia has a couple of interesting
articles on Chambers and his book,
*Vestiges of the Natural History of
Creation*.  See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Chambers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestiges_of_the_Natural_History_of_Creation

It should be noted that in the 1830s and 1840s
there was much public discussion of evolution
in Great Britain.  One reason for Darwin's
reluctance to publish his own theory was
because the previous public discussions
of the subject created in the popular
mind the impression that support for 
evolution was something that was associated
with atheism and socialism, an impression
that was by no means inaccurate.

Jim Farmelant

---------- Original Message ----------
Mark Lause <markalause@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


More interestingly, Darwin was wrong in his Victorian assumptions
about gradual and incremental change.  Huxley argued this matter with
him, as I think Wallace did.  Evolution (whether biological or in a
historical sense) tends to be flashes of lurching in a vast amounts of
apparent inaction.

There's a real problem with this singular stroke of genius assumption
in general.  Robert Chamber's made a much more fearless assertion of
some of the basic ideas of evolution in 1844...just about the time
Marx and Engels were beginning their work...

ML



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