A single near-death experience of strangulation or threat of it may cause so much fear that the victim may get trapped in a pattern of control by the abuser and made vulnerable to further abuse. Victims frequently downplay what has happened to them. âOh, he just choked me. Iâm OK now.â But they are not.
By the end of the Victorian period the values that were characteristic of this time were fading away. In 1859 (mid-way through the Victorian Age), Charles Darwin published a work that opposed the conventional way of thinking about religion. The Origin of Species proposed the theory that man actually evolved from a lower species rather than having been created by a higher power.
Erasmus Darwin (12 December 1731 â 18 April 1802) was an English physician.One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor and poet.is poems included much natural history, including a statement of evolution and the relatedness of all forms of life. He was a member of the DarwinâWedgwood family, which includes his grandsons Charles Darwin and Francis Galton.