This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic ’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. In July 1860, The Atlantic Monthly ’s readers were confronted, many for the first time, with Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection. “ Darwin on the Origin of... read full story
"Novelties are enticing to most people: to us they are simply annoying,"