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英语翻译Wallace didn’t drop into Darwin’s life quite as unexpect

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英语翻译
Wallace didn’t drop into Darwin’s life quite as unexpectedly as is sometimes suggested.The two were already corresponding,and Wallace had more than once generously sent Darwin specimens that he thought might be of interest.In the process of these exchanges Darwin had discreetly warned Wallace that he regarded the subject of species creation as his own territory.“This summer will make the 20th year ) since I opened my first note-book,on the question of how & in what way do species & varieties differ from each other,” he had written to Wallace some time earlier.“I am now preparing my work for publication,” he added,even though he wasn’t really.
In any case,Wallace failed to grasp what Darwin was trying to tell him,and of course he could have no idea that his own theory was so nearly identical to one that Darwin had been evolving,as it were,for two decades.
Darwin was placed in an agonizing quandary.If he rushed into print to preserve his priority,he would be taking advantage of an innocent tip-off from a distant admirer.But if he stepped aside,as gentlemanly conduct arguably required,he would lose credit for a theory that he had independently propounded.Wallace’s theory was,by Wallace’s own admission,the result of a flash of insight; Darwin’s was the product of years of careful,plodding,methodical thought.It was all crushingly unfair.
To compound his misery,Darwin’s youngest son,also named Charles,had contracted scarlet fever and was critically ill.At the height of the crisis,on June 28,the child died.Despite the distraction of his son’s illness,Darwin found time to dash off letters to his friends Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker,offering to step aside but noting that to do so would mean that all his work,“whatever it may amount to,will be smashed.” Lyell and Hooker came up with the compromise solution of presenting a summary of Darwin’s and Wallace’s ideas together.The venue they settled on was a meeting of the Linnaean Society,which at the time was struggling to find its way back into fashion as a seat of scientific eminence.On July 1,1858,Darwin’s
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and Wallace’s theory was unveiled to the world.Darwin himself was not present.On the day of the meeting,he and his wife were burying their son.
华莱士不掉在达尔文的生活太竟然有时建议.这两个已经相应,不止一次了,华莱士慷慨地打发达尔文标本,他认为可能的兴趣.这些交流的过程中,达尔文有智慧警告华莱士,他认为是类的主体造物是他自己的推销领域."今年夏天,将使20年以来(!)我打开我的第一个笔记本、上的问题及如何如何物种和品种不同,”他写过一本华莱士一些时间更早.我现在准备我的工作出版时,”他补充道,尽管他不是真的.
在任何情况下,华莱士没能领会达尔文想告诉他,当然他可能不知道自己的理论是如此近乎相同的一个,达尔文已经演变,好像是在二十年.
达尔文是放置在痛苦的左右为难.如果他冲进打印到保护他的目标,他会利用一个无辜的被遥远的仰慕者.但是如果他走到一边去,有绅士风度的行为,他将失去可能需要承认他的理论,提出独立.华莱士的理论是,华莱士自己承认,由于一道见识;达尔文产品多年的小心,单调乏味的,有系统的思想.这一切都crushingly不公平的.
他痛苦的复合,达尔文最小的儿子,又叫查尔斯,简约猩红热与垂危的时候.在高度危机,6月28日,儿子就死了.尽管他儿子的干扰的病,达尔文找时间去键入信件向他的朋友Lyell约瑟名妓女,查尔斯提供走开但注意那样做会意味着所有他的工作,"不管它可达,必被打碎.”Lyell和妓女想出解决呈现折衷达尔文的总结,华莱士的想法在一起.场馆了林耐分类的参加一个会议