Patrick Matthew was a Scottish Chartist leader. Interestingly Emma Martin the socialist, materialist atheist, feminist often shared a platform with Chartists
This excellent book makes no mention of Patrick Matthew- but tells us about the feminist - bullied, beat up and arrested for promoting evolution over miraculous creation explanations for species. Ever heard of Emma Martin, a socialist atheist promoting evolution before Darwin? pic.twitter.com/0ItzHpC23V
— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) October 12, 2020
This is a good book on Darwin's racism and more besides. Only the author seems to know nothing at all about Matthew. He quotes Chambers and Rafinesque many times however. And we know from my orignal F2B2 research (Sutton 2014) that Chambers cited Matthew twice pre 1858, was apparently first to be second in 1858/9 with Matthew's original term "natural process of selection" and Rafinesque was apparently first to be second with Matthew's phrase/terms "long continued selection" and "evinced in the genus".
