tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post3671887136075941928..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: Did Darwin Lie About What Schaaffhausen Said? Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-43319417596970902192017-08-30T20:14:35.165-04:002017-08-30T20:14:35.165-04:00I have had the chance to read more of your citatio...I have had the chance to read more of your citation and it makes me more certain than ever that Darwin misrepresented what H.S. believed. I might write about it but it will have to wait for the weekend. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-89402769013800992732017-08-30T20:05:50.554-04:002017-08-30T20:05:50.554-04:00Thank you for the citation, I have taken a quick l...Thank you for the citation, I have taken a quick look at it and will review it. <br /><br />Herman Schaafhausen taught at the University of Bonn, I will have to review this because I did this post four years ago. But I would say that the last two paragraphs from the paper read to the same association would be in radical contradiction to what Darwin claimed were H S's beliefs. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-64376269281730868512017-08-30T19:32:08.791-04:002017-08-30T19:32:08.791-04:00I think that this is the wrong Schaafhausen. There...I think that this is the wrong Schaafhausen. There's a write up in the Anthropological Review on the page that Darwin cites that refers to an "M. Schaafhausen of Bonn" that says this:<br /><br />"In the present state of things, the distance between man and the animal increases under our own eye. Not merely the human races standing lowest in the scale, and presenting in their organisation many resemblances to animal forms, are gradually becoming extinct, but the superior apes approaching nearest to man become more rare from century to century; and will, perhaps, in a few centuries have entirely disappeared. What is there illogical in the idea that thousands of years back the distance between the lowest man and the highest ape was less than at present, and that it would still lessen the more we ascend the past?"<br /><br />It's available on JSTOR here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3025130<br />Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07113032643023806211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-36585791322361365822016-02-16T15:07:37.408-05:002016-02-16T15:07:37.408-05:00No, I haven't confused an observation or predi...No, I haven't confused an observation or prediction with adovcacy on purpose, or due to ignorance. Considering Darwin's enthusiasm for the idea of "savages" becoming extinct, especially at the hands of Brits, See Darwin's letter to Gaskell which I also wrote about, quoting his entire letter as well as Gaskell's. <br /><br />That it would appear Darwin misrepresented what Schaaffhausen actually said, which wouldn't support his theory, in order to make that statement is depravity in line with what he said to Gaskell and in support of similar statements by Haeckel. <br /><br />I've read the literature, trying to find every citation that Darwin made in The Descent of Man. I think I could probably defend everything I said, citing either Darwin direction or those things he cited. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-74681775455093114782016-02-16T14:27:19.751-05:002016-02-16T14:27:19.751-05:00"Depravity"? Have you confused an obser..."Depravity"? Have you confused an observation or prediction with advocacy on purpose, or due to ignorance? If on purpose, THAT would seem to be depravity to me.nmanninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14767343547942014627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-15532535100591133322015-06-04T10:42:34.131-04:002015-06-04T10:42:34.131-04:00Awesome write up. Thank you for this!Awesome write up. Thank you for this!Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10018441507307853350noreply@blogger.com