Darwin's continuing voice

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and Levine’s discussion of the melding of science and wonder, train their gazes insistently forward, to a present in which biodiversity and climate change are no mere intellectual concepts.,

Quote The idea of the melding of science and wonder is accented profoundly in our modern age of quantum physics where science reaches even beyond the frontiers of accepted knowledge and enters the thresh hold of wonder beyond what science can answer. Perfect examples of this melding are the concepts of biodiversity and climate change even exceeding man's understanding of these concepts and involving the best minds of our time in turmoil and with no answers to the Gordian knots they present to consciousness.

Jim Endersby draws on recent work on masculinity and the emotions in Victorian culture to reconsider Darwin’s relationship to the botanist Joseph Hooker
The idea of masculinity as presented above in relation to Victorians is a novel concern of which I have never been aware. The gendering of the natural scientist is another such concern I would like to be enlightened.

Darwin’s contemporaries were
learning to understand the implications
of
contingency as meaningful and
productive. Jim Endersby draws on
recent
work on masculinity and the emotions
in Victorian culture to
reconsider
Darwin’s relationship to the botanist
Joseph Hooker, and, by
implication, the
gendering of the natural scientist in the
period. And
contributions from Gillian
Beer and George Levine—two founding
figures in
Darwin criticism—reflect their
confidence that attention to
Darwin’s
language enables us to better understand
both the Victorian
moment and our
own: Beer’s analysis of extinction in the
Origin, and
Levine’s discussion of the
melding of science and wonder, train
their
gazes insistently forward, to a present in
which biodiversity and
climate change
are no mere intellectual concepts.

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