令胡冲 wrote:
真得不简单。前天看了电视上一个记录片,花那么多年写出物种起源。一个很值得注意的历史资料是,当他的书发表后,社会大哗。整个社会的卫道士和媒体都对他不以为然,大加抨击。特别是那些大报的漫画家家们,笔下的画犀利辛辣幽默尖刻。
Here is one of them, Monkeyana(猿猴乘)
Controverysy over evolution provided prime material for satirists of the day. The many cartoons and parodies published included this poem from Punch, May 1861
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Am I a man and a brother?
Am I satyr or man?
Pray tell me who can,
And settle my place in the scale.
A man in ape's shape,
An anthropoid ape,
Or monkey deprived of his tail?
The Vestiges taught,
That all came from naught
By "development," so called, "progressive;"
That insects and worms
Assume higher forms
By modification excessive.
Then Darwin set forth
In a book of much worth,
The importance of "nature's selection;"
How the struggle for life
Is a laudable strife,
And results in "specific distinction."
Let pigeons and doves
Select their own loves,
And grant them a million of ages,
Then doubtless you'll find
They've altered their kind,
And changed into prophets and sages.
Leonard Horner relates,
That Biblical dates
The age of the world cannot trace;
That Bible tradition,
By Nile's deposition,
Is put to the right about face.
Then there's Pengelly
Who next will tell ye
That he and his colleagues of late
Find celts and shaped stones
Mixed up with cave bones
Of contemporaneous date.
Then Prestwich, he pelts
With hammers and celts
All who do not believe his relation,
That the tools he exhumes
From gravelly tombs
Date before the Mosaic creation.
Then Huxley and Owen,
With rivalry glowing,
With pen and ink rush to the scratch;
'Tis Brain versus Brain,
Till one of them's slain,
By JOVE! it will be a good match!
Says Owen, you can see
The brain of Chimpanzee
Is always exceedingly small,
With the hindermost "horn"
Of extremity shorn,
And no "Hippocampus" at all.
The Professor then tells 'em,
That man's "cerebellum,"
From a vertical point you can't see;
That each "convolution"
Contains a solution
Of "Archencephalic" degree.
That apes have no nose,
And thumbs for great toes,
And a pelvis both narrow and slight;
They can't stand upright,
Unless to show fight,
With 'Du Chaillu,' that chivalrous knight!
Next Huxley replies,
That Owen he lies,
And garbles his Latin quotation;
That his facts are not new,
His mistakes not a few,
Detrimental to his reputation.
"To twice slay the slain,
By dint of the Brain,
(Thus Huxley concludes his review)
Is but labour in vain,
Unproductive of gain,
And so I shall bid you 'Adieu'!"http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/comm/Punch/Monkey.html
Zoological Gardens, May, 1861
GORILLA