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Life of Charles Darwin

Chapter 21: THE WORLD OF CANT
By G. T. Bettany
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A biography traces the subject’s family background and childhood, describes schooling and early scientific interests, and follows the extended naval voyage that supplied diverse observations of geology, biogeography, and human cultures. It then recounts the return years of correspondence with leading scientists, the publication of geological and natural-history papers, and the patient, long-term investigation and synthesis that produced a revolutionary explanatory framework for species and human origins. The narrative emphasizes the subject’s observational breadth, methodical labor, sympathy for living beings, and the role of specific field experiences in shaping later scientific thought.

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THE  WORLD
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“Daily Telegraph.”—“Decidedly a book with a purpose.”

“Scotsman.”—“A vigorous, clever, and almost ferocious exposure, in the form of a story, of the numerous shams and injustices.”

“Newcastle Weekly Chronicle.”—“Trenchant in sarcasm, warm in commendation of high purpose.... A somewhat remarkable book.”

“London Figaro.”—“It cannot be said that the author is partial; clergymen and Nonconformist divines, Liberals and Conservatives, lawyers and tradesmen, all come under his lash.... The sketches are worth reading. Some of the characters are portrayed with considerable skill.”

“May the Lord deliver us from all Cant: may the Lord, whatever else He do or forbear, teach us to look facts honestly in the face, and to beware (with a kind of shudder) of smearing them over with our despicable and damnable palaver into irrecognisability, and so falsifying the Lord’s own Gospels to His unhappy blockheads of Children, all staggering down to Gehenna and the everlasting Swine’s-trough, for want of Gospels.

“O Heaven! it is the most accursed sin of man: and done everywhere at present, on the streets and high places at noonday! Verily, seriously I say and pray as my chief orison, May the Lord deliver us from it.”—Letter from Carlyle to Emerson.

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