Crime and Punishment, and Darwin's Theory

[image error]

The 150th anniversary of Darwin's Origin of Species passed into history seven years ago. In the years that followed 1859, the impact of evolutionary thinking seeped across the culture of Europe and America. It occurs to me that me that now and for years to come we'll be tracing a series of century-and-a-half anniversaries of the effects of that seepage, and reflections on it as it was happening. This year, among other things, it's the publication of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866)....