1859

The political or cultural aspects of history are the mere surface of history; that in preference to, and deeper than these, the reality of history lies in biological power, in pure vitality, in what is in man of cosmic energy, not identical with, but related to, the energy which agitates the sea, fecundates the beast, causes the tree to flower and the star to shine. (Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses, 1930) In 1859 Darwin's The Origin of Species was published and George Ferris, Edmund Husserl, Pierre Curie, Georges Seurat and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were born. The largest recorded solar storm took place, and the British amateur astronomer Richard Christopher Carrington first noted the solar flares. The filmmaker said: "Built out of a 30-frame clip of a lens flare. LSD is illegal, 1859 is not."