249.18–19 “exhibited such . . . represented by it.”] From Cook’s journals, December 26, 1772.
249.28–30 one of his scientist . . . being shipwrecked.”] See the entry for December 27, 1773, in George Forster’s A Voyage Round the World, in His Britannic Majesty’s Sloop, Resolution (1777).
249.40–250.2 “I can be bold . . . have done.”] See volume 2 of Cook’s A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Performed in H.M.S. Resolution and Adventure (1777).
254.26–27 “God is dead . . . permitted.”] See Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov (1880), part 4, book 11, chapter 4.
255.5–14 Plato . . . with confidence.”] See Plato’s Phaedo (c. 360 B.C.E.).
259.3–7 Imagine God . . . DONNE] See Donne’s sermon on Isaiah 65:20, “Preached to the King, at White-Hall” (c. 1624–27).
261.23–24 Francis Bacon . . . made to do.”] See Bacon’s Novum Organum (1620), book 2, section 10.
262.7–11 John Donne . . . are not.] See “A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day,” first published posthumously in 1633.
262.18–22 a little book of essays . . . Natural?] See chapter six in The Firmament of Time in Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos, Volume 1.
264.16–23 “In every nature . . . neglected.”] See the conclusion of Natural Theology; or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature (1802).
264.29 “natural government . . . John Hunter.] See “Observations in Natural History,” collected posthumously in Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology, and Geology (1861).
265.9–10 “no vestige . . . end.”] See note 144.40–145.2.
265.38 Alfred Russel Wallace . . . departure.”] See note 173.25–26.
268.25–26 Einstein . . . the universe.] See Einstein’s letter of December 4, 1926, to Max Born.
269.5–8 “The most important . . . anticipation.”] See The Principles of Mechanics, Presented in a New Form (1899).
272.33–34 “Force maketh . . . once written.] See Bacon’s essay “Of Nature in Men” (1617).
273.8–12 “It is very unhappy . . . directly.”] See Emerson’s “Experience,” collected in Essays: Second Series (1844).
273.19–20 “We have learned . . . same thinker] See Emerson’s “Illusions,” collected in The Conduct of Life (1860): “What terrible questions we are learning to ask!”
284.12–13 a student . . . anthropologist] Frank G. Speck (1881–1950), subsequently Eiseley’s dissertation advisor at the University of Pennsylvania.
293.11–12 “Certain coasts . . . shipwreck.”] See Robert Louis Stevenson’s essay “A Gossip on Romance” (1882).
299.18–19 Things . . . being calculated.] See the final chapter of Chesterton’s novel The Return of Don Quixote (1927).
299.30–31 “The dangerous gift . . . termed it] See Goethe’s “Probleme” (1823).
301.37–39 “Love not the world . . . in the world.”] See 1 John 2:15.
302.15–16 “There is no boon . . . written harshly] See William Graham Sumner’s essay “The Boon of Nature,” first published in The Independent, October 27, 1887.
305.20–21 Bacon’s forgotten . . . life.”] See section 49 of Bacon’s Novum Organum (1620).
307.3–6 As to what happened . . . XENOPHON] See Xenophon’s Hellenica (c. 393–357 B.C.E.), book 7.
309.35 “Nature . . . Thoreau once said.] From Thoreau’s journals, May 27, 1841.
310.3–9 “The human brain . . . out of it.”] From Thoreau’s journals, January 30, 1854.
313.13–15 Alfred Russel Wallace . . . impoverished world.”] See The Geographical Distribution of Animals (1876), volume 1, chapter 7.
313.31–35 “The association of unusual . . . evolve together.”] See The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man (1949).
317.4–9 J. K. Charlesworth . . . tectonic history.”] See volume 2 of Charlesworth’s The Quaternary Era, with Special Reference to Its Glaciation (1957).
320.5–7 Leonard Silliman . . . providence.”] See the opening sentence of “The Genesis of Man,” The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, January 1953.
320.18–24 the legendary cycles . . . their dreams.”] See “The Blackfoot Genesis” in George Bird Grinnell’s Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People (1907).
322.3–6 “hazardously supplied . . . higher centers.”] See F. A. Gibbs, “The Most Important Thing,” American Journal of Public Health, December 1951.
325.3–5 “A creature without . . . SANTAYANA] See “The Realm of Truth” (1937), the third book of Santayana’s Realms of Being (1927–40).
325.27–28 “There is no circulation . . . protested.] From Thoreau’s journals, March 19, 1841.
326.26–29 Darwin . . . shall be mine.”] See Darwin’s letter of July 24, 1834, to John Stevens Henslow.
326.29–31 Thoreau . . . sunbeam.”] From Thoreau’s journals, March 17, 1841.
326.33–37 Ellery Channing . . . I judge.”] Channing wrote these lines in his notebook after Thoreau’s death on May 6, 1862.
327.12–14 “But . . . living person can tell.”] See L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), chapter 10.
327.29–31 “It was a lonely . . . while before.”] See The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, chapter 4.
330.23–25 Darwin writing . . . search for “facts.”] See Darwin’s letter to Lyell of March 17, 1863.
330.30–31 “Forfend me . . . Scotch prudence.”] See Darwin’s letter of May 12, 1847, to Joseph Dalton Hooker.
331.31–36 “Lord . . . queer cases of variation.”] See Darwin’s letter of November 12, 1862, to Joseph Dalton Hooker.
331.37–38 “I sat one evening . . . pigeon fanciers.”] See Darwin’s letter of November 27, 1859, to Thomas Henry Huxley.
332.1–13 “How awfully flat . . . nothing new.”] See Darwin’s letters of August 11, 1860, to Charles Lyell (“The Bishop makes a very telling case”); November 18, 1856, to Joseph Dalton Hooker (“A seed has just germinated”); March 26, 1863, to Hooker (“I am like a gambler”); November 12, 1862, to Hooker (“I am horribly afraid” and “I trust to a sort of instinct”); and May 7, 1855, to W. D. Fox (“All nature is perverse”).
335.3–5 “What a book . . . works of Nature.”] From a letter of July 13, 1856, to Joseph Dalton Hooker.
335.31–336.1 Stanley Hyman . . . savage tribes.”] Hyman discusses the anonymous review, published in The Spectator on March 12, 1871, in The Tangled Bank: Darwin, Marx, Frazer, and Freud as Imaginative Writers (1962).
336.36–337.1 One contemporary . . . animal.”] See the recollections of John Weiss in “Thoreau,” first published anonymously in the Christian Examiner, July 1865.
337.24–27 In one passage . . . outrage at most.”] From Thoreau’s journals, September 3, 1841.
337.40–338.1 “If we see nature . . . decays.”] From Thoreau’s journals, March 13, 1842.
338.11–14 “It appeared to have . . . beneath it.”] See Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), chapter 17.
338.15–16 “fox belongs . . . the village.”] From an undated entry in Thoreau’s journals, c. 1842–44.
338.23–25 “Some . . . happened to the universe.”] See the chapter title “Thursday” in Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849).
338.38–339.1 “I am sensible . . . kind of fiction.”] See Walden, chapter 5.
339.11–13 “for if the voices . . . I hear.”] From Thoreau’s journals, February 11, 1853.
339.20–21 “It is ebb . . . reports.”] From Thoreau’s journals, March 5, 1858.
339.31–36 “I did not formerly . . . unrecognized service.”] See note 191.1–5.
340.13–14 “consists not . . . his instincts”?] From Thoreau’s journal
s, July 16, 1850.
340.19–24 Viking Eddas . . . other spare.] See the tenth-century Völuspá or “Wise-Woman’s Prophecy.”
340.36–38 “If the condition . . . substitute?”] See Walden, chapter 18.
341.15–16 The soul . . . never seen.] A view attributed to the Alaskan shaman Najagneg in H. Ostermann’s The Alaskan Eskimos, as Described in the Posthumous Notes of Dr. Knud Rasmussen (1952).
341.29–30 what Coleridge . . . the universe.] See “The Destiny of Nations. A Vision,” first published in its entirety in 1817: “For all that meets the bodily sense I deem / Symbolical, one mighty alphabet / For infant minds.”
343.3–5 I say . . . CALIBAN] See The Tempest, III.ii.52–53.
343.28–29 Herman Melville . . . any map.”] See Moby-Dick (1851), chapter 12, on Queequeg’s birthplace, Kokovoko: “It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
346.40–347.2 the young man . . . species.”] From an entry in Darwin’s Ornithological Notes, c. September–October 1835.
348.14–15 Everything . . . everything else.] See My First Summer in the Sierra (1911), chapter 6: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
348.38–349.4 Sir Francis Bacon . . . confined.] See book 2 of Bacon’s De Augmentis Scientiarum (1623): “however it be that vast and strange swellings . . . take place occasionally in nature, whether of the sea or the clouds or the earth or any other body, nevertheless all such exuberances and irregularities are by the nature of things caught and confined in an inextricable net, and bound down as with a chain of adamant.”
350.36–40 Darwin . . . origin of species.”] See Darwin’s letter to Wagner, October 13, 1876.
352.31–36 a Brocken specter . . . evasion.] De Quincey discusses the phenomenon of the Brocken spectre the magnified shadow of an observer, cast upon distant clouds or fog in “The Apparition of the Brocken,” first published in 1845 and later retitled “Dream Echoes Fifty Years Later”: “Make the sign of the cross, and observe whether he repeats it, (as on Whitsunday he surely ought to do.) Look! he does repeat it; but these driving April showers perplex the images, and that, perhaps, it is which gives him the air of one who acts reluctantly or evasively.”
354.6–12 “The crabs . . . deliberation.”] From a letter of July 31, 1910, by Henry “Birdie” Bowers, quoted in Cherry-Garrard’s The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910–1913 (1922).
355.5–8 Thoreau . . . acorns.”] From Thoreau’s journals, December 21, 1840.
355.22–25 Sherwin Carlquist . . . obsolescent.”] See Carlquist’s Island Life: A Natural History of the Islands of the World (1965).
356.37–38 the isle . . . mortal business.”] See The Tempest, I.ii.407.
358.35–37 “This thing . . . acknowledge mine.”] See The Tempest, V.i.275–76.
358.38–40 “There is no . . . service to man.”] See the opening chapter of Wilson’s Signs and Wonders upon Pharaoh: A History of American Egyptology (1964).
359.6–10 spirit Ariel . . . follow it”?] See The Tempest, III.ii.148–49.
361.3–6 There is strong . . . MCGLASHAN] See The Savage and Beautiful Country (1967), chapter 7.
365.19–20 Dante . . . other stars.”] See the final line of Dante’s Paradiso (1320).
365.31–32 “The conviction . . . plague of man.”] See the “Apology for Raymond Sebond” in Montaigne’s Essais (1580).
366.30 “Double in ourselves . . . Montaigne.] See “Of Glory” in Montaigne’s Essais (1580).
368.8–10 John Donne . . . beare.”] See Donne’s sermon on Psalms 51:7 (“Purge me with hyssop”).
368.28–33 Emerson . . . worthless?”] See “The Over-Soul,” from Essays: First Series (1841).
369.5–8 “Cosmic nature . . . the tiger.”] See Huxley’s “Evolution and Ethics,” first presented as the Romanes Lecture at Oxford on May 18, 1893.
374.8–9 “the bright stranger . . . Emerson] See the entry for August 29, 1849, in Emerson’s journals: “Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.”
375.3–8 Only to a magician . . . BEAGLE] See Beagle’s novel The Last Unicorn (1968).
382.37–39 “I am the thing . . . Charles Williams] See Williams’s play Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury (1936).
386.38–40 Thoreau . . . Royal Society.] From Thoreau’s journals, October 4, 1859: “Your greatest success will be simply to perceive that such things are, and you will have no communication to make to the Royal Society.”
390.16–17 “We must regard . . . John Joly] See “The Abundance of Life,” a paper presented before the Royal Dublin Society on November 19, 1890, and published in The Scientific Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society, volume 7 (1891–92).
397.40–398.2 Sir Francis Bacon . . . into view.”] See the “Aphorisms on the Composition of the Primary History” in Bacon’s “Preparative towards a Natural and Experimental History,” first published with the Novum Organum in 1620.
Index
Adaptive radiation, 267, 351
Africa, 366, 392; early primates in, 319; effect of ice age in, 316–18
Alaska, 341
Alexandria, Egypt, 397
Amphibians, 343
Amundsen, Roald, 250
Anderson, William, 251
Antarctic, 243, 247, 249–50, 252
Anthropology, 260
Antimatter, 266
Apes, 243, 245, 319, 368
Arboreal primates, 319
Archean (Archeozoic) eon, 266
Archeology, 261, 268, 282
Archeozoic (Archean) eon, 266
Arctic, 312–13, 317, 322
Arcturus, 362
Argos (dog), 256–57
Asia, 317–21, 366
Athens, Greece, 397
Atlantic Ocean, 354
Atom, primordial, 266
Auschwitz concentration camp, 271
Australia, 247, 312, 397
Bacon, Francis, 261, 272, 299, 305, 348–49, 398
Balance of creation, 263–65
Banks, Joseph, 251–52
Beagle, H.M.S., 250, 256, 326, 329–31, 333, 346
Beagle, Peter, 375
Belsen concentration camp, 273
Bering Strait, 251, 316
Berlin, Germany, 366
Bible, 263, 275, 280, 283, 295, 301, 333, 387
Bipedalism, 318–19
Birds, 297, 341, 370–71
Bison, 307, 316
Blackfoot, 320
Brain, hominid, 319–20, 370; human, 266–67, 277–78, 314, 321–22, 353, 370
Brazil, 337
Britain, 249, 252, 269, 316–17, 322, 325, 329–31, 333, 339
British Association for the Advancement of Science, 333
Bronze age, 247
Buchenwald concentration camp, 273
Buddhism, 289
Burial of the dead, 261, 314, 397
Burton, Robert, 243
Byzantium, 345–46
Cambrian period, 311–12
Cambridge University, 329–30, 333
Canada, 316
Cape Horn, 329, 336
Carlquist, Sherwin, 355
Catastrophism, 266
Cave paintings, 244, 341, 397
Cecropia moths, 363
Celestial machine, 263–64, 336
Channing, William Ellery, 326
Charlesworth, J. K., 317
Cherry-Garrard, Apsley, 354
Chesterton, G. K., 299
Chichén Itzá, 244
Chile, 326
China, 318, 320–21, 342
Choukoutien skull, 321
Christianity, 263, 326, 329
Clarke, Howard, 255
Climate, world, 317–18
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 341
Columbus, Christopher, 389
Computers, 281
Concentration camps, 271, 273
Concord, Mass., 337
Conti
ngency evolution, 270–71, 295
Conus spurius atlanticus, 342
Cook, James, 243, 246–52, 257, 329, 351, 397
Costabel beach, 289–93, 297, 300–301, 305
Crabs, 354
Creation: balance of, 263–65
Crossopterygian, 354
Curaçao, 387–88, 399
Dalrymple, Alexander, 248–50
Dante Alighieri, 256, 365
Darwin, Charles, 246, 254, 256–57, 302, 305, 347, 369–70, 373; The Descent of Man, 335, 350; evolutionary theory of, 265–66, 299–300; on islands, 353–56; On the Origin of Species, 296, 299, 330, 332, 337, 339, 350; in South America/Galápagos Islands, 250–51, 253, 326, 329, 331, 333, 341, 346, 350–51, 354; as “voyager,” 325–42
De Quincey, Thomas, 352
Dinosaurs, 282, 367
Divergent evolution, 267
DNA, 279
Dogs, 240, 256–57, 307–9, 322, 380–81, 387–88
Donne, John, 259, 262, 368
Dunsany, Lord (Edward Plunkett), 373
Dyersville, Iowa, 301
Eden, 279, 344
Edinburgh University, 330–31
Egypt, ancient, 363, 372
Einstein, Albert, 299
Eiseley, Daisey Corey (mother), 297, 300–301
Elihu, 275, 280
Elizabeth age, 269, 349
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 273, 368, 378, 384
Endeavor, H.M.S., 250
Enlightenment, 330
Eskimos, 325, 339–41
Europe, 316–17
Evolution, 296–97, 330–31, 348, 367, 369–70, 374, 387; contingency, 270–71, 295; divergent,267; human, 266–67, 340
Extinction, 282, 313, 316, 320, 344
Faust, 256
Fire, 320–22
Fitzroy, Robert, 329–31, 333
Flood, biblical, 263
Florence, Italy, 250
Forster, Johann, 252
Fossils, 263, 276–77, 300, 307, 366, 395
Foxes, 385–86
France, 245, 330
Francis of Assisi, 366, 372
French Revolution, 330
Freud, Sigmund, 254, 299
Galápagos Islands, 250–51, 253, 331, 333, 341, 346, 350–52, 354–55
Galaxies, 297
Gelli, Giovanni Battista, 250
Genetics, 266, 282–83, 351
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