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Volume 11 : 7 July 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Recollections of the Development of My Mind and Character:
the Autobiography of Charles Darwin

Pauline Das, Ph.D.


Introduction


More than 150 years have passed since the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species launched a theological, philosophical and scientific revolution. Nearly everyone knows about the theory of evolution, but few know the man and motives behind it. Charles Darwin’s autobiographical recollections were written for his children,—and written without any thought that they would ever be published. The autobiography bears the heading, Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character, and end with the following date: - Aug. 3, 1876.From his autobiography we are able to understand the nature of his character. Many a time we are shocked.

Childhood


Charles Darwin was born at Shrewsbury on February 12th, 1809. His mother died in July 1817, when he was a little over eight years old, and he remembers hardly anything about her except her deathbed, her black velvet gown, and her curiously constructed work-table. In the spring of this same year he was sent to a day-school in Shrewsbury, where he stayed a year. He was much slower in learning than his younger sister Catherine, and he was a naughty boy.
By the time he went to this day-school his taste for natural history, and more especially for collecting, was well developed. He tried to make out the names of plants, and collected all sorts of things, shells, seals, franks, coins, and minerals. The passion for collecting which leads a man to be a systematic naturalist, a virtuoso, or a miser, was very strong in him and was clearly innate, as none of his sisters or brother ever had this taste.


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Pauline Das, Ph.D.
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Department of English
Karunya University
Karunya Nagar
Coimbatore - 641114
Tamilnadu, India
paulinemdas@gmail.com


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