A love declaration as a two-column table
Bird twittering. It smells of wood. Darwin — after a broken medical studies and a reluctantly ended theology studies — not necessarily the purposeful career type — discovered at the five-year world tour finally his passion: the observation and writing of people, landscapes, plants and animals. He fails like a blind, the sudden light light is given. Soon he is convinced that the whole world was going to the lake and grew into the world, there was only the darn maritime.
"She looks beautiful", he enthuses himself. Here is not a woman, but the beagle, the ship he went to world trip. For Darwin "The most perfect ship ever has left a dock".
Not attributive so much passion brings Darwin to the female gender: for women to go into the world, lies far away. When in 1839 finally attracts his attention, it is his cousin Emma wedgwood, a young woman from his immediate diline circle.
Darwin does not write a love letter, he catalogs his feelings in a two-column table. In it he compares the consequences of marrying with those of non-marrying.
"Marry", So it’s been there — without an emma wedgwood to win — means one "Stillary danger and girlfriend in old age" to have. "Someone who is interested in one. Someone to love. Better than a dog. Own home and someone who leaves the household. Charm of music and female chat." These things are good for health, states Darwin.
An important disadvantage of marriage is for Darwin in the fact that with the wedding relatives. "Related to visit — a terrible waste of time", he tight.
In the column "Non-marry" It is called: "No children, no second life. Nobody who is an age around a Kummert". Good on non-bound-being is for Darwin "to go to the freedom where you want" and the "Society Kluger Manner in Clubs". Well, too, that the trusted compulsion, relatives to visit, dropped and that there are no costs and worries about children. "No dispute" Record Darwin on the page of "Non-marry". The disadvantage of single-existence: you get fat and lazy and fear of responsibility.
At the end, Darwin resumed:
My God, it is unbearable to imagine that one spends his life like a sexless work bee. Imagine in a dirty house all day. Hold the picture of a gentle woman against. So: marry, marry, marry. QED — Quod Erat Demonstrandum.
The advertising — mostly the manne — shows that he can afford the effort. The female has the choice, it is in Darwins "About the genesis of the species by natural breeding" . How free emma wedgwoods "Female choice" In fact, the exhibition is Darwin — Travel to Knowledge in the Museum of Natural History in Berlin unfortunately no information.