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December 21, 2023
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury in 1809 and died in Bromley, Kent, in 1882, one hundred years ago. Darwin’s great contribution to human knowledge is contained in his book, The Origin of Species, which sets out a theory of organic evolution by natural selection. Darwin had arrived at the theory of evolution as early …
May 3, 2023
(Concluded.) One other example is of especial interest from our point of view; “the introduction of the factory system seemed to throw the whole organisation of society into disorder and chaos. . . . But this phenomenon means no more than the falling out of adjustment of the secondary societal forms with the primary. An …
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April 25, 2023
“SOCIETAL EVOLUTION,” by A. G. Keller, Professor of the Science of Society in Yale University, U.S.A. 338 pp. Macmillan. In the evolution of the attitude of the master class and their agents toward the Marxian or Socialist conception of society, we can, broadly speaking, distinguish two stages. At its first appearance the work of Marx …
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April 2, 2023
A YALE PROFESSOR’S BACKING TO THE MARXIAN ARGUMENT (Continued.) The mores (*) of a social group are believed by the mass of its members to be essential to the social welfare. They are passed on to each generation by tradition, which, thus corresponds to heredity in biological evolution. The sense organs are the agents for …
March 17, 2021
Two of the branches of scientific work that have done more to revolutionise human thought than any others are those known as Darwinism and Socialism. Though both these owe their final achievements to the painstaking research of many previous investigators, it was not until time and development had provided the material for proof and demonstration …
April 17, 2020
The viewpoint that discerns and identifies an historic linkage between Charles Darwin and Karl Marx in regard to their respective, earthshaking theories seems not to be obvious to scientists, generally, in our times. Most scientific people, to the extent that they do attempt analysis of our social system, are no more cognisant of the traditional …
April 14, 2020
Two figures dominated the nineteenth century — Charles Darwin, the Englishman, and Karl Marx, the German. Both men achieved fame through the written word, although neither was a great public figure or great orator. They never addressed large public gatherings, except once when Marx spoke to the Congress of the International Working Men’s Association at …
April 1, 2020
As this month is the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species, a book that raised a storm in its day, we are devoting considerable space in this issue to Darwinism and its relation to Marxism, particularly as Marx published the first section of his main work the same year. Darwinism is …
November 12, 2018
CHARLES DARWIN was born 150 years ago, on the 121th February, 1809. There was little in his early life to suggest its subsequent course. He was the son of a prosperous and popular general practitioner in the town of Shrewsbury, and was sent with his brother to a Shrewsbury school. There his headmaster was Dr. …
In all the controversy aroused by the publication of Darwin’s theory during the last century one man towered head and shoulders above his contemporaries. That man was Thomas Henry Huxley. As Dr. Cyril Bibby so convincingly shows (T. H. Huxley, Watts 25s.), Huxley had clearly appreciated several years before the publication of the Origin of …