Name: A Luta de Darwin (Documentário-2009)
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In the late summer of 1859, Charles Darwin finally completed the last

paragraph of his greatest work on The Origin Of Species.

But he wasn't drawing his inspiration from the exotic islands

that he'd visited on his famous voyage on HMS Beagle.

A chalk bank in Kent, near his house at Downe,

that explain the diversity of life on our planet.

It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds,

with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about,

and with worms crawling through the damp earth,

and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms,

and dependent on each other in so complex a manner,

have all been produced by laws acting around us.

Darwin was unleashing a new vision of nature,

where species evolved independently from the guiding hand of a creator.

The established vision of a harmonious world, divinely ordaine

to serve God's noblest creation, mankind, would be shattered.

that what he was dealing with was effectively intellectual dynamite,

and he kept most of his thoughts about what he was doing

where new species might arise, effectively secret.

It was a secret with which Darwin had wrestled for 20 years.

20 years of unflinching support from his wife Emma, who feared that

her beloved husband might be consigned to eternal damnation

Together they would endure two decades of debilitating illness,

It was a life struggle that Darwin also saw

among the animals and plants in the fields and tangled banks

A struggle that is a founding principle of his theory of natural selection.

And the last paragraph of the Origin Of Species really goes out with a perfect bang.

The whole book has been about the struggle for existence

and what Tennyson had called nature red in tooth and claw.

The last paragraph gives, to me, a sense of hope.

It sort of shows that this war of all against all,

actually has a result and the result is the living world we see around us.

the worms and the butterflies and the grass and the orchids,

all of these beauties of nature emerge from Darwin's simple idea.

with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms

or into one, and that whilst this planet has gone cycling along

endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful

Just as beauty and wonder emerge out of a war of nature,

so too did Charles Darwin's great book evolve out of years

of painstaking research and inner conflict.

Charles Robert Darwin was already an established gentleman naturalist.

enabled him to pursue his particular interest,

solving what had been called "the mystery of mysteries".

How animals and plants might transmute or evolve.

that in 1842 he and his burgeoning family had moved to a house

just outside London near the village of Downe, in Kent.

After several fruitless searches in Surrey and elsewhere,

I was pleased by the diversified appearance

of the vegetation proper to a chalk district,

and so unlike what I had been accustomed to in the Midland counties.

And still more pleased with the extreme quietness

Darwin knew in the country there was space to expand his experiments,

There was plenty of information there for him to draw on

and then there was a very important factor for Darwin

of getting into a space where he felt safe,

In the early 1840s, transmutation or evolution was still a radical idea,

It was a secret that he shared with his wife and first cousin

Emma Wedgwood, whom he had married three years earlier.

I marvel at my good fortune that Emma, so infinitely my superior

in every single moral quality, should have consented to be my wife.

Emma was the precondition for everything that he did.

where he felt safe to work obsessively without fearing

the loss of love and damaging their relationship.

She was to nurse him through years of recurrent bouts of illness,

the nature of which remains unclear to this day.

Possibly damage caused by a South American parasite,

25 years' extreme spasmodic daily and nightly flatulence.

Vomiting preceded by shivering, hysterical crying,

dying sensations or half-faint and copious and very pallid urine.

Air fatigues bring on head symptoms, nervousness when Emma leaves me.

I think she was always concerned about his health.

She was constantly trying to persuade him

to have a day off here, go on a trip there,

but because she felt if he carried on working at the pace

at which he was going, then he would become more ill.

Emma was to provide Charles with ten children, seven of whom survived to adulthood.

As a father, Charles Darwin did not conform