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Darwin in America : the intellectual response, 1865-1912 / Cynthia Eagle Russett.

Title
Darwin in America : the intellectual response, 1865-1912 / Cynthia Eagle Russett.
Author
Russett, Cynthia Eagle.
Publication
San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, c1976.

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Description
ix, 228 p. : ill., ports.; 22 cm.
Subject
  • Biological Evolution
  • Biology
  • Biology > United States > History
  • Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
  • Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
  • Darwin, Charles
  • Natural selection
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Origins -- 2. Nature's God -- 2. Cambridge metaphysics: Evolution, chance, and the cosmos in John Fiske, Chauncey Wright, C.S. Peirce, and William James -- 4. Taming the tiger: Darwinism in society and social thought -- 5. Science, history, and Henry Adams -- 6. Thorstein Veblen: Darwinian, skeptic, moralist -- 7. Three naturalist Writers -- 8. The demise of certitude.
ISBN
0716705648. 071670563X
LCCN
^^^75040476^//r84
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library