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Victorian Literature INTRODUCTION Charles Darwin has become an icon in our time, no less important than Columbus, Newton, Jefferson, Edison, Einstein, or Gates. He is seen as projecting out of the Victorian era like a colossus. The 1800’s are no less awe-inspiring than ours’ for its intellectual mindset and technological f ....

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.... pottery industrialist Josiah Wedgwood's daughter. Despite his mother's Unitarianism and father's free thought, Darwin received an Anglican education. Medical training at Edinburgh University proved unsuccessful, but he loved beach combing with Dr Robert E. Grant, a sponge expert, Lamarckian evolutionist, a democrat and materialist, who trained Darwin in French-style invertebrate anatomy. At student clubs, where Darwin reported his observations, he saw fiery radicals censored for calling the mind a product of a ....