Abstract
Examples from Charles Darwin, especially his tacking between different forms of temporality that enabled an integration of human experience and geological immensity, and John Tyndall, with his all-encompassing vision of a mechanical and energetic universe, show the sense in which Victorian scientific naturalism replicated in important respects the Romantic sensibilities of a Humboldt or a Goethe, for whom the natural world represented a self-sufficient unity. There was no ontological gap between Mind and Nature for scientific naturalism any more than there had been for Romantic sensibilities. Reason was what resulted from human nature, and human nature was reason. Nature red in tooth and claw, the terrible sublimity of scientific naturalism, was Romanticism's legitimate offspring.
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