Comments on: Buchanan, Windchy, Darwin and Marx http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/07/03/buchanan-windchy-darwin-and-marx/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:21:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ted Herrlich http://blog.jmlynch.org/2009/07/03/buchanan-windchy-darwin-and-marx/comment-page-1/#comment-7144 Ted Herrlich Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:24:07 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/buchanan-windchy-darwin-and-marx/#comment-7144 As for Buchanan's and Windchy's absurd claim that Charles Darwin stole the work of Alfred Russel Wallace here are Wallace's on words on the subject from "MY RELATIONS WITH DARWIN IN REFERENCE TO THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION" (http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=A273&viewtype=text&pageseq=1) in which he says: "My own paper is reprinted in my Essays on Natural Selection (1870), in the preface to which I wrote in reference to it as follows: "I have felt all my life, and I still feel, the most sincere satisfaction that Mr. Darwin had been at work long before me and that it was not left for me to attempt to write the Origin of Species. . . . Far abler men than myself may confess that they have not that untiring patience in accumulating and that wonderful skill in using large masses of facts of the most varied kind, that wide and accurate physiological knowledge, that acuteness in devising and skill in carrying out experiments, and that admirable style of composition, at once clear, persuasive and judicial—qualities which in their harmonious combination mark out Mr. Darwin as the man best fitted for the great work has undertaken and accomplished." "In conclusion I would Only wish to add, that my connection with Darwin and his great work has helped to secure for my own writings on the same questions a full recognition by the press and the public; while my share in the origination and establishment of the theory of Natural Selection has usually been exaggerated. The one great result which I claim for my paper of 1858 is that it compelled Darwin to write and publish his Origin of Species without further delay. " Ted tedhohio@gmail.com http://sciencestandards.blogspot.com As for Buchanan’s and Windchy’s absurd claim that Charles Darwin stole the work of Alfred Russel Wallace here are Wallace’s on words on the subject from “MY RELATIONS WITH DARWIN IN REFERENCE TO THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION” (http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=A273&viewtype=text&pageseq=1) in which he says:

“My own paper is reprinted in my Essays on Natural Selection (1870), in the preface to which I wrote in reference to it as follows: “I have felt all my life, and I still feel, the most sincere satisfaction that Mr. Darwin had been at work long before me and that it was not left for me to attempt to write the Origin of Species. . . . Far abler men than myself may confess that they have not that untiring patience in accumulating and that wonderful skill in using large masses of facts of the most varied kind, that wide and accurate physiological knowledge, that acuteness in devising and skill in carrying out experiments, and that admirable style of composition, at once clear, persuasive and judicial—qualities which in their harmonious combination mark out Mr. Darwin as the man best fitted for the great work has undertaken and accomplished.”

“In conclusion I would Only wish to add, that my connection with Darwin and his great work has helped to secure for my own writings on the same questions a full recognition by the press and the public; while my share in the origination and establishment of the theory of Natural Selection has usually been exaggerated. The one great result which I claim for my paper of 1858 is that it compelled Darwin to write and publish his Origin of Species without further delay. ”

Ted
tedhohio@gmail.com
http://sciencestandards.blogspot.com

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