Gerry Reinhart-Waller wrote:
>
> Interesting.
> Could you perhaps cite your source.

As for Darwin's personal frailty, I cannot cite
the source for that.  I am like a piece of velcro
for collecting such "telling" facts about our
social world.

As for Darwin's "darwineanism", I read that in Ch. 13,
esp. p. 195 of _After Modernity: Husserliam reflections
on a philosophical tradition_, by James Mensch (SUNY,
Albany, 1996).  Mensch gives his sources in the text.

Does anyone know if Darwin had any *children*, i.e.,
if he himself reproduced?

"Yours in discourse [which, even if it happens to have
occasional survival value, may be at least claimed
to be participated in by persons for other reasons...]...."

+\brad mccormick

>
> Gerry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 10:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Evolution and Cognitive Dissonance
>
> > This past week, I read something "interesting":
> >
> > I read that Darwin *personally* believed that it was desirable
> > for society to *not* apply itself to helping
> > the "less fit", because this would weaken the species.  He
> > apparently understood that this would entail a lot of persons
> > suffering a lot.
> >
> > I believe there is a profound blindness in this, since
> > I had earlier read that the only reason Darwin was able to function
> > in life (and, e.g., to discover and publish the theory of evolution...)
> was
> > because of his inherited wealth and the ministrations of a
> > devoted wife.
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