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February
14
For the week of February 19-21, you've got about
forty pages to read, so pace yourself. Don't put it off until the
night before class because you may not make it all the way through.
For Tuesday, February 19, read the following works
that deal with the issue of evolution (about 16-17 pages):
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from Darwin's The Origin of the Species, pp.
1679-82. Read just to the bottom of p. 1682.
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from Darwin's The Descent of Man, pp. 1686-87
and 1689-90.
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from Huxley's The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry
Huxley [The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate], pp. 1690-93.
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from Gosse's Father and Son [The Dilemma of
the Fundamentalist and Scientist], pp. 1694-96.
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Tennyson's In Memoriam A. H. H. Starting
on p. 1270, read only stanzas 106, 120, 123, and 124.
For Thursday, February 21, read the following works
that deal with industrialization and with urban issues (less than 20 pages):
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"Industrialism: Progress or Decline?" pp. 1696-97.
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from Kingsley's Alton Locke [A London
Slum], pp. 1710.
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from Dickens's Hard Times [Coketown], pp.
1711.
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Charles Dickens, p. 1333. Read the biographical
sketch as well as "A Visit to Newgate." (11 pages)
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"Poverty Knock," pp. 1713.
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from Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor
[Boy Inmate of the Casual Wards], p. 1714.
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Besant's "The 'White Slavery of London Match Workers,"
pp. 1715-17.
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