I am honored to have been the speaker at their wedding this evening. Part of my remarks discussed Charles Darwin's notes on marriage – arguments for and against – which are well worth reading (I thank A.C. for the pointer to those). He was afraid of no more balloon trips, not being able to visit America, having to visit relatives too often, and having less time and less money to spend on books. But still he did it and here is the closing bit:
Never mind my boy– Cheer up– One cannot live this solitary life, with groggy old age, friendless & cold, & childless staring one in ones face, already beginning to wrinkle.– Never mind, trust to chance–keep a sharp look out– There is many a happy slave–
Congratulations to the couple. An Ilya/Tyler friendship sounds fascinating, from what I know of the two
He apparently also became an important childhood development chronicler, for which he might have been famous if not for evolution., which probably would not have happened without marriage.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0000/ai_2699000056/
“The first detailed scientific study of child development was probably Charles Darwin’s Biographical Sketch of an Infant (1877), based on a log he had kept on the development of his eldest child. In this work, Darwin advanced the hypothesis that each individual’s development from birth to adulthood parallels or recapitulates the phylogenetic development of the human species as a whole (he had made a similar observation about the development of the fetus). Darwin’s ideas influenced the early study of child development, also known as the child study movement.”
Interesting that “The Happiest Toddler On the Block” utilizes a similar analogy for toddlers as little cavemen.
Darwin said in his autobiography that he was indeed moderately rich and so he did not need to work, And gave thanks because he was unable to work.He spent 10 years studying a marine form of life.
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