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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 feats. Yet his mo ...

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... very foundations of human thought being rewritten, affecting the entire intellectual life of Western civilization. UPBRINGING AND EDUCATION Darwin was trained for the Church in an age that saw the gentry as the moral backbone of a Christian nation. The son of a wealthy doctor, his mother (who died when he was eight) was the pottery industrialist Josiah Wedgwood's daughter. Despite his mother's Unitarianism and father's free thought, Darwin received an Anglican education. Medical training at Ed ...