![]() Philip thought his argument would reconcile atheists and believers, but he was shattered when his book met with dismissal and was ignored. After she dies, at twilight, he seeks his father's embrace: "I used to turn my face up to his, patiently and wonderingly, while the large, unwilling tears gathered in the corners of his eyelids." While the severity of his parents' attitudes has been challenged by scholars of Edmund's dramatic and eloquent narrative, the power of the clash of tradition and innovation at intimate levels during the mid-nineteenth century's encounter with Darwin's revolutionary theory can be felt.Īs a naturalist, Philip tried to reconcile the new doctrine, arguing in the book "Omphalos" that as Adam added a navel thanks to God's intervention, so His plan allowed for fossils embedded to look as if a more antiquated cosmos had been intended from the beginning. His wife died of cancer, and the son movingly documents her own demise, drawing from her diary, and enriched by his own recollections. ![]() Edmund's father, Philip Henry Gosse, ran a Plymouth Brethren household. ![]() ![]() In 1907, this "study of two temperaments" dramatized religious convention opposed to rational modernism. ![]()
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