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Mrs. Humphry Ward

Earthquake_at_Lisbon
Image: An 1883 depiction of the great Lisbon earthquake, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and the Problem of Pain

For many Enlightenment Age Europeans, the death-knell for belief in an omnipresent, interventionist God had been sounded by the great Lisbon earthquake. Read More ›
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Photo: Algernon Charles Swinburne, by Elliott & Fry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and Theomachy

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) provides the closest chronological fit with Darwin. Read More ›
L0003411 Mary Augusta, Mrs. Humphry Ward. Photograph by Barraud.
Photo: Mrs. Humphry Ward, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars

As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.” Read More ›

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