Titlebook: Images of the Economy of Nature, 1650-1930; From "Nature’s War" Antonello La Vergata Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Autho

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978-3-031-31025-6The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31023-2natural theology; theodicy; order and balance of nature; Darwinism; economy of nature; War of Nature; Stru

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Abundance and Variety, economy of nature. Science and natural philosophy were imbued with moral meaning. The more nature was known, the more God’s, and nature’s, ways to the human being were vindicated. This belief became a tacit assumption which also influenced authors who cannot, strictly speaking, be described as natu

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Evil in Nature,ncept for them as well as for many other authors, such as the French philosopher Jean-Baptiste Robinet and the English writer, journalist and science populariser Oliver Goldsmith. But invoking compensation to explain evil as part of the economy of nature could be turned into a justification of it in

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Carnivores, Extinctions and the Beast,is related to the development of geology and its impact on images of nature. In the first half of the nineteenth century advocates of “Scriptural Geology” denied that whole species could become extinct, as gaps could not open up in God’s work. Yet, if all species were represented in the Garden of Ed

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,The “Struggle for Existence”, or, What’s in a Metaphor?, unavoidable ambiguities. This chapter deals with the Malthus–Darwin connection, emphasises the complexity of Darwin’s struggle for existence, and discusses the relations between its different meanings. It also stresses the importance of Malthus’ moral message for Darwin’s first formulation of the t

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