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Mircea Eliade

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With “Fluctuating” Convictions, Darwin Faced a Threefold Challenge

In what follows I pose the question of how Darwin fell subject to such wide “fluctuations” in his beliefs and how he came to resolve those tensions. Read More ›
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Why Has Darwin Been Believed? 

By the later 1830s educated people in England and far beyond its borders had experienced some truly convulsive existential tremors beneath their feet. Read More ›
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Wordsworth: Disciples at Home and Abroad

In 1848 Ralph Waldo Emerson is on record as having paid a return visit to the then aged Wordsworth. Read More ›
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Darwin, Wordsworth, and Natural Theology

I give here a short sample of just one of the passages in “Tintern Abbey” where Wordsworth reports undergoing what might be described as a moment of epiphany. Read More ›

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