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Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) provides the closest chronological fit with Darwin.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) provides the closest chronological fit with Darwin.
Of immediate relevance to Darwin’s generation were writers who can be traced in a fairly direct line from the beginning of the 19th century.
As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.”
Fleeming Jenkin (the distinguished Scottish scientist who with Lord Kelvin spearheaded the laying of the transatlantic cable) was particularly scathing.
People chose to believe what they wanted to believe in obedience to the then reigning intellectual fashion.