Darwin and the Victrian era The Victorian Age was a time when many views on human existence and destiny were formed and discussed. Strictly speaking the Victorian era denotes the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837-1901. When this era came to an end, the ongoing concepts and controversies did not vanish. The old and the new are always confusingly interlocked in culture. The twentieth century inherited some of the ideas of the nineteenth century. Some …
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…were doomed either to be exterminated or segregated. Unfortunately, Darwinism gave rise to extremism and secularism. The Victorians, despite the furor caused over this doctrine, re-mained composed. They weathered the storm in an age of conflicting views brought along by a yearning for progress. Darwin's theories were both challenged and accepted, yet who could have known what grave misfortunes, for example Nazism and senseless imperialism, would result from Darwin's theories throughout the generations to come.