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  1. Isaac Newton, “Accounts Book” (1662), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

  2. William Paley,Natural Theology(1802), inSelections, ed. Frederick Ferre ́ (In-
    dianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963), 50.

  3. Ibid., 52.

  4. Jonathan Topham, “Science and Popular Education in the 1830s: The Role of
    theBridgewater Treatises,”British Journal for the History of Science25 (1992): 397–430;
    and “Beyond the ‘Common Context’: The Production and Reading of theBridgewater
    Treatises,” Isis89 (1998): 233–262.

  5. Geoffrey Cantor,Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist(London: Mac-
    millan, 1991), 247.

  6. Ibid., 248.

  7. Nicolaas Rupke,The Great Chain of History: William Buckland and the English
    School of Geology, 1814–1849(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983).

  8. Ibid., 173.

  9. For Chambers, see James Secord,Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Pub-
    lication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of “Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation”
    (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000); for Lamarck: Ludmilla Jordanova, “Na-
    ture’s Powers: A Reading of Lamarck’s Distinction between Creation and Produc-
    tion,” inHistory, Humanity and Evolution, ed. James Moore (Cambridge: Cambridge
    University Press, 1989), 71–98.

  10. From a letter dated June 5, 1879, for a copy of which I am grateful to Dr.
    Basil Hetzel, Adelaide.

  11. Michael Buckley,At the Origins of Modern Atheism(New Haven: Yale Univer-
    sity Press, 1987), 15.

  12. Darwin,Descent of Man, 143.

  13. Brooke,Science and Religion, 303.

  14. Francis Darwin,The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin(London: Murray,
    1887), 1: 304.

  15. Bernard Lightman, “Ideology, Evolution and Late-Victorian Agnostic Popular-
    izers,” in Moore,History, Humanity and Evolution, 285–309.

  16. Darwin,Autobiography, 86.

  17. Frederick Burkhardt, ed.,The Correspondence of Charles Darwin(Cambridge:
    Cambridge University Press, 1994), 9:302.

  18. Ibid., 162.

  19. Cannon, “Bases of Darwin’s Achievement.”

  20. Charles Darwin,Essay(1844), inEvolution by Natural Selection, ed. Gavin de
    Beer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958), 114.

  21. Darwin,Autobiography, 87.

  22. Fiona Erskine, “Darwin in Context: The London Years, 1837–1842,” Ph.D.
    dissertation, Open University, 1987.

  23. Cited by James Moore, “Of Love and Death: Why Darwin ‘Gave Up Christi-
    anity, ’” in Moore,History, Humanity and Evolution, 195–229, 205.

  24. Adrian Desmond and James Moore,Darwin(London: Michael Joseph, 1991),
    375–387.

  25. Darwin to Asa Gray, July 1860, in Francis Darwin,Life and Letters, 1: 315.

  26. Darwin in Francis Darwin,Life and Letters, 1: 316.

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