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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Contradictions of the Enlightenment: Darwin, Freud, Einstein and Modern Art
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Contents
- Contradictions of the Enlightenment: Darwin, Freud, Einstein
- The Classical Synthesis
- The Advance of Medical Theory and Treatments
- Geology
- Biology: Red in Tooth and Claw
- Reactions to Darwin
- Social Darwinism
- Physics: The End of the Classical Synthesis
- Astronomy
- Psychology: The Obscurity of the Mind
- Philosophical Reflections: The End of Reason?
- Scientists' Reflections on Science and Meaning
- Literature: Humanity's Heart of Darkness?
- Visual Arts: What to Do After Photography?
Contradictions of the
Enlightenment:
Darwin, Freud, Einstein
- See History of Science
Sourcebook
- SUMMARY: Late 19th Century
Science and Culture
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WEB Philosophers, Scientists and Theologians of the 19th Century [At Internet Archive]
Names, dates, and major works (with text links where available)
- The Classical Synthesis
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867): Lectures on the Forces of
Matter, 1859 [At this Site]
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867): The Chemical History of A
Candle, 1860 [At this Site]
- 2ND John Tyndall: Faraday as a Discoverer, 1894, in chapter files, full text [Was At Bibliomania, now Internet Archive]
- Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)(1824-1907): Tides,
1882 [At this Site]
- Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)(1824-1907): Wave
Theory Of Light, 1884 [At this Site]
- Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz: On The
Conservation Of Force, 1863 [At this Site]
- Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz: Ice and
Glaciers, 1865 [At this Site]
- The Advance of Medical Theory and Treatments
- Geology
- Biology: Red in Tooth and Claw
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Voyage of the Beagle 1845 [At Literature.Org][Full Text] [Internet Archive version here]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): On the Origin of Species 1859 [At Literature.Org][Full Text] [Internet Archive version here]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): On the Origin of the Species 1859 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): On the Origin of Species 1859, short extracts [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): On the Origin of Species 1859, extracts [At Hanover]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Descent of Man 1871 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The
Descent of Man 1871, excerpts [At this Site]
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Descent of Man 1871, excerpts on Sexual Selection [At this Site]
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Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The
Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals [At Project Gutenberg]
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825-95): The Crayfish: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, 1880, full text [Was At Alberta, now Internet Archive]
- Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949): The
Life of the Bee [La Vie des Abeilles], translated from French into English
by Alfred Sutro, full text [At ibiblio] [Internet Archive version here]
- Reactions to Darwin
- Samuel Wilberforce: On Darwin's Origin of
Species 1860 [At this Site]
A negative reaction.
- St. George Jackson Mivart (1827-1900): On the Genesis of the
Species 1871 [At this Site]
Mivart was a Catholic convert who wrote a noted reply to the Darwinian thesis, which
he did not dismiss out of hand, in 1871. In 1876, Pope Pius IX conferred on him the degree
of doctor of philosophy.
- J. H. Gladstone: Points of Supposed Collision Between
the Scriptures and Natural Science 1872 [At this Site]
A lecture given at the behest of the Christian Evidence Society, in support of
Christianity against the assault of the New Science upon Biblical authority.
- Social Darwinism
- Physics: The End of the Classical Synthesis
- Astronomy
- Simon Newcomb (1835-1909): Extent of The Universe 1884 [At this Site]
It was not realised until the 1920s that there was more than one galaxy in the universe.
- Percival Lowell (1855-1916): Mars 1895, in
chapter files, full text [At Bibliomania]
- A.S. Eddington (1882-1944): Stars and Atoms 1926 in chapter files, full text [At Bibliomania]
- James Nasmyth: Autobiography 1897, in chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania]
- Psychology: The Obscurity of the Mind
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Philosophical
Reflections: The End of Reason?
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860): On Suicide [Was At Adelaide, now Internet Archive]
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860): On the Sufferings of the World [Was At Adelaide, now Internet Archive]
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860): The Metaphysics of the Love of the Sexes [Was At Adelaide, now Internet Archive]
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855): The Present Age [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
See also Richard Hooker's Introduction [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- Auguste Comte (1798-1857): A General View of Positivism [At this Site]
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Auguste Comte: View of the
Nature and Importance of the Positive Philosophy [At History Guide] [Internet Archive version here]
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Auguste Comte: The Action of
Positivism on the Working classes [Was At Warwick, now Internet Archive]
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881): Notes From the Underground [Was At Virginia, now Internet Archive]
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881): Rebellion and the Grand
Inquisitor [At Online Literature] [Internet Archive version here]
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): Parable of the Madman [At this Site]
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): The Gay Science [At
Hanover]
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): Thus Spake
Zarathustra, 1891 [Full text][At this Site]
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): Also sprach Zarathustra [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text][In German]
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): The AntiChrist, 1895 [At
Project Gutenberg]
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): The Geneology of Morals,
extracts [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
See also Richard Hooker's Introduction [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
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Friederich Nietzsche (1844-1900): "Good
and Evil," "Good and Bad" [Was At Warwick, now Internet Archive]
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William James (1842-1910): Essays in Radical Empiricism [Was At Brock U., now Internet Archive][Full Text]
- Lugwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus [At Witt] [Internet Archive version here]
Hypertext of the Ogden bilingual edition
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Kurt Gödel: On Formally Undecidable Propositions Of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems, 1931
[PDF File] [Full Text] [Was At IBM, now Internet Archive]
- Scientists' Reflections on Science and Meaning
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Literature: Humanity's
Heart of Darkness?
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Mathew Arnold (1822-88): Dover Beach c. 1867 [At Poetry Foundation]
On the retreat of faith. A little premature given the religious revival in Catholicism and Protestantism in the 19th century.
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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): Heart of Darkness 1899 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): Heart of Darkness 1899 [Was At Gaslight, now Internet Archive][Original Magazine Version]
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Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
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Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky: Marcel
Proust 1924, from Revolutionary Silhouttes [At Marxists.org]
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926): Poems, in
English and German [Was At Norconnect, now Internet Archive,]
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Visual Arts: What to
Do After Photography?
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