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Contents ix Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 15 Chapter One "One Short Sentence": The Spanish Reception of Darwinism 17 Pride and Natural Theology 25 The Introduction of Darwinism 32 Darwinism as Image 49 Chapter Two Decorative Science, Pedants, and Spanish Realism 50 Realists and Positivists 55 Reliable and Unreliable Representatives of Science . 57 Scientific Spokespersons in Spanish Realism 65 Images of Science in La Regenta 81 Chapter Three Science, Faith, and Reference 83 Ram6n y Cajal and Biological Tropology 93 Faith in Words 100 Metaphysics and Modernity 103 Chapter Four "Perspectivas tan vastas": "Scientific" Images of Science . 106 Metaphors and Science 108 The Poetics of Scientific Popularization 115 Cajal's Scientific Rhetoric 125 The Scientific Value ofAnthropomorphism 130 Rhetoric and Progress 132 Chapter Five The Tragicomedy of Science in 1898 134 Sublimity and Modem Epistemology 139 Science and Love (Again) in Gald6s 142 Unamuno and Comical Science' 147 Baroja and Tragic Science 152 Mecan6polis Contents 154 Chapter Six . "Muy Siglo XX": Science and Culture 155 Ortega and "10 modemo" 158 Ortega and Scientific Images 161 Ortega and Evolution 169 Ortega and Relativity 172 A Scientific Humanist 174 Lain's Synthesis: History and Medicine 176 The Silent Time: Franco and Science 181 An Unscientific Solution 183 Conclusion 187 Notes 203 Works Cited 219 Index viii ...