La autobiografía de Charles Darwin
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~22.700 palabras · 108 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APACharles Darwin. (n.d.). The Autobiography of Charles Darwin [La autobiografía de Charles Darwin]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/charles-darwin/the-autobiography-of-charles-darwin
- MLACharles Darwin. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin [La autobiografía de Charles Darwin]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/charles-darwin/the-autobiography-of-charles-darwin.
- ChicagoCharles Darwin. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin [La autobiografía de Charles Darwin]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/charles-darwin/the-autobiography-of-charles-darwin.
Referencia de la edición reproducida. SigPhi es la reproducción digital. Se incluyen año, editorial y traductor cuando constan; «n.d.» indica que no consta el año.
De qué trata
El texto que Darwin escribió en 1876 para sus hijos, sin intención de publicarlo, sobre su propia vida y su propio carácter.
Contexto e historia
Es corto y muy poco solemne: Darwin se describe como un chico mediocre en la escuela, cuenta el «Beagle» como el hecho que lo decidió todo, y hace balance de sus hábitos de trabajo con una franqueza que en sus libros no se ve nunca. Está la famosa queja de haber perdido el gusto por la poesía y la música a fuerza de ir convirtiendo la mente en una máquina de moler hechos, cosa que él mismo considera una pérdida y un daño moral. Y están las páginas sobre la religión, donde explica cómo fue dejando de creer, poco a poco y sin angustia, y cómo contó en ello la muerte de su hija Annie. Esas páginas las suprimió su viuda en la edición de 1887; sólo pudieron leerse enteras en 1958, cuando su nieta Nora Barlow publicó el texto completo. Conviene comprobar cuál de las dos versiones se está leyendo.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
know not. I often became quite absorbed, and once, whilst returning to school on the summit of the old fortifications round Shrewsbury, which had been converted into a public foot-path with no parapet on one side, I walked off and fell to the ground, but the height was only seven or eight feet. Nevertheless the number of thoughts which passed through my mind during this very short, but sudden and wholly unexpected fall, was astonishing, and seem hardly compatible with what physiologists have, I believe, proved about each thought requiring quite an appreciable amount of time. Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler’s school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank. During my whole life I have been singularly incapable of mastering any language. Especial attention was paid to verse-making, and this I could never do well. I had many friends, and got together a good collection of old verses, which by patching together, sometimes aided by other boys, I could work into any subject. Much attention was paid to learning by heart the lessons of the previous day; this I could effect with great facility, learning forty or fifty lines of Virgil or Homer, whilst I was in morning chapel; but this exercise was utterly useless, for every verse was forgotten in forty-eight hours. I was not idle, and with the exception of versification, generally worked conscientiously at my classics, not using cribs. The sole pleasure I ever received from such studies, was from some of the odes of Horace, which I admired greatly. When I left the school I was for my age neither high nor low in it; and I believe that I was considered by all my masters and by my father as a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect.…