The Tragic life of Mantell
Mantell was an excellent doctor and equally gifted bone hunter, but he was unable to support both his talents. He neglected his medical practice. Soon fossils filled nearly the whole of his house in Brighton and consumed much of his income. Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex, published in 1827, sold only fifty copies and left him £300 out of pocket. In some desperation Mantell hit on the idea of turning his house into a museum and charging admission, and so he allowed people to visit the house for free. They came in their hundreds, week after week, disrupting both his practice and his home life. Eventually he was forced to sell most of his collection to pay off his debts. Soon after, his wife left him, taking their four children with her.
After losing his wife, his children, his medical practice, and most of his fossil collection, Mantell moved to London. There in 1841, Mantell was involved in a terrible accident. While crossing Clapham Common (عبارة عن متنزه كبير ومعروف في كلابهام) in a carriage, he somehow fell from his seat, grew entangled in the reins, and was dragged at a gallop over rough ground by the panicked horses. The accident left him bent, crippled, and in chronic pain, with a spine damaged beyond repair (إعاقة وألم مزمن). Capitalizing on Mantell’s enfeebled state, Owen (عالم احفوريات تطوري يبوك بأبحاث العالم) set about systematically expunging Mantell’s contributions from the record, renaming species that Mantell had named years before and claiming credit for their discovery for himself. Mantell continued to try to do original research but Owen used his influence at the Royal Society to ensure that most of his papers were rejected. In 1852, unable to bear any more pain or persecution, Mantell took his own life. انتحر! But the insults had not quite finished. Soon after Mantell’s death an arrestingly uncharitable obituary (سجل الوفيات او ورقة نعي) appeared in the Literary Gazette. In it Mantell was characterized as a mediocre anatomist whose modest contributions to paleontology were limited by a “want of exact knowledge.” The obituary even removed the discovery of the iguanodon from him and credited it instead to Cuvier and Owen, among others.
Mantell was an excellent doctor and equally gifted bone hunter, but he was unable to support both his talents. He neglected his medical practice. Soon fossils filled nearly the whole of his house in Brighton and consumed much of his income. Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex, published in 1827, sold only fifty copies and left him £300 out of pocket. In some desperation Mantell hit on the idea of turning his house into a museum and charging admission, and so he allowed people to visit the house for free. They came in their hundreds, week after week, disrupting both his practice and his home life. Eventually he was forced to sell most of his collection to pay off his debts. Soon after, his wife left him, taking their four children with her.
After losing his wife, his children, his medical practice, and most of his fossil collection, Mantell moved to London. There in 1841, Mantell was involved in a terrible accident. While crossing Clapham Common (عبارة عن متنزه كبير ومعروف في كلابهام) in a carriage, he somehow fell from his seat, grew entangled in the reins, and was dragged at a gallop over rough ground by the panicked horses. The accident left him bent, crippled, and in chronic pain, with a spine damaged beyond repair (إعاقة وألم مزمن). Capitalizing on Mantell’s enfeebled state, Owen (عالم احفوريات تطوري يبوك بأبحاث العالم) set about systematically expunging Mantell’s contributions from the record, renaming species that Mantell had named years before and claiming credit for their discovery for himself. Mantell continued to try to do original research but Owen used his influence at the Royal Society to ensure that most of his papers were rejected. In 1852, unable to bear any more pain or persecution, Mantell took his own life. انتحر! But the insults had not quite finished. Soon after Mantell’s death an arrestingly uncharitable obituary (سجل الوفيات او ورقة نعي) appeared in the Literary Gazette. In it Mantell was characterized as a mediocre anatomist whose modest contributions to paleontology were limited by a “want of exact knowledge.” The obituary even removed the discovery of the iguanodon from him and credited it instead to Cuvier and Owen, among others.
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هذا المشهد خلاني اصفن فور سم ريزن اور انذر...
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"لكن هذا الخجل والشعور بالخزي والعار لا يرجع لا إلى أن شعر رأسه محلوق، ولا إلى أنه مكبّل بالسلاسل! إن ما كان يشعره بالخزي والعار، وما كان يؤلمه إيلاماً شديداً حتى جعله مريضاً، إنما هو الجراح التي أصيبت بها كبرياؤه"
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"إنّ الوجودَ في حدّ ذاتِه لم يَكن كافيًا له في يومٍ مِن الأيام. إنّما هو كان يَطمَع دائمًا في أكثرِ مِن ذلك! ولعلَّ عنفَ رغباتِه كان وحدَه السببَ في أنّه ظَنَّ نفسَه إنسانًا يَجوزُ له ما لا يَجوزُ لغيرِه"
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