Charles Darwin: His Life Told In An Autobiographical Chapterand In A Selected Series Of His Published Letters

Charles Darwin: His Life Told In An Autobiographical Chapterand In A Selected Series Of His Published Letters

by Francis Darwin
Charles Darwin: His Life Told In An Autobiographical Chapterand In A Selected Series Of His Published Letters

Charles Darwin: His Life Told In An Autobiographical Chapterand In A Selected Series Of His Published Letters

by Francis Darwin

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Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. Charles Darwin had the strongest feeling of love and respect for his father's memory. His recollection of everything that was connected with him was peculiarly distinct, and he spoke of him frequently, generally prefacing an anecdote with some such phrase as, "My father, who was the wisest man I ever knew," &c. It was astonishing how clearly he remembered his father's opinions, so that he was able to quote some maxim or hint of his in many cases of illness. As a rule he put small faith in doctors, and thus his unlimited belief in Dr. Darwin's medical instinct and methods of treatment was all the more striking. His reverence for him was boundless, and most touching. He would have wished to judge everything else in the world dispassionately, but anything his father had said was received with almost implicit faith. His daughter, Mrs. Litchfield, remembers him saying that he hoped none of his sons would ever believe anything because he said it, unless they were themselves convinced of its truth-a feeling in striking contrast with his own manner of faith.

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ISBN-13: 9781470074166
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 02/13/2012
Pages: 430
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.87(d)
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