Unity heads will roll series#

The content and language reflect the beliefs, practices and terminology of their time, and have not been updated.ĬAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS EnnBon: FETTER LANE, E.C. The Cambridge Library Collection will bring back to life books of enduring scholarly value across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and in science and technology.ĭarwin and Modern Science Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Charles Darwin and of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of The Origin of SpeciesĬ A M b r I D g E U n I v E r SI T y P r E S S Cambridge new york Melbourne Madrid Cape Town Singapore São Paolo Delhi Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, new york Information on this title: © in this compilation Cambridge University Press 2009 This edition first published 1909 This digitally printed version 2009 ISbn 978-5-0 This book reproduces the text of the original edition. The latest print-ondemand technology ensures that the books will remain available indefinitely, and that orders for single or multiple copies can quickly be supplied.

The files are processed to give a consistently clear, crisp image, and the books finished to the high quality standard for which the Press is recognised around the world. Drawing from the world-renowned collections in the Cambridge University Library, and guided by the advice of experts in each subject area, Cambridge University Press is using state-of-the-art scanning machines in its own Printing House to capture the content of each book selected for inclusion. The Cambridge Library Collection extends this activity to a wider range of books which are still of importance to researchers and professionals, either for the source material they contain, or as landmarks in the history of their academic discipline. However dramatic the controversies he stirred, what shines from these essays is profound admiration for both Darwin’s intellect and the quality of his character.Ĭambridge University Press has long been a pioneer in the reissuing of out-ofprint titles from its own backlist, producing digital reprints of books that are still sought after by scholars and students but could not be reprinted economically using traditional technology. In his work, Darwin had sought only the truth, writing ‘Absolute accuracy is the hardest merit to attain, and the highest merit. The diversity of views among biologists regarding both the origin of species and the best directions for further research is clearly evident. They addressed contemporary (1909) attitudes, Darwin’s theories and their far-reaching implications, and the progress of new lines of research that had emerged from them. Aiming to be accessible to the ‘educated layman’, the eminent contributors reviewed the impact of Darwin’s ideas in many spheres.

Unity heads will roll series#

This series offers not only works by Darwin, but also the writings of his mentors in Cambridge and elsewhere, and a survey of the impassioned scientific, philosophical and theological debates sparked by his ‘dangerous idea’.ĭarwin and Modern Science The Cambridge Philosophical Society collected this series of essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. Cambridge Library CoLLeCtion Books of enduring scholarly valueĭarwin Two hundred years after his birth and 150 years after the publication of ‘On the Origin of Species’, Charles Darwin and his theories are still the focus of worldwide attention.