Word: darwin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emerson had clearly seen the unity which runs through all life, even before Darwin published his "Origin of Species...
Married. Miss Emily Winthrop, 31, and Miss Kate Winthrop, 24, daughters of Grenville Lindall Win throp, retired capitalist, "whose wealth is reported to match that of anys man in Lenox," respectively to Corey Miles, 33, chauffeur, and Darwin Morse, 23, electrician; at Lenox, Mass., by elopement. Winthrop, a direct descendant of John Winthrop, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts, was unnerved. Said the Lenox cleric who married them: "Well, they are nice young people?as nice as you'll find anywhere these days...
...When the white men were living in caves and were barbarous, we Negroes gave them a civilization they snatched away from us. We will rebuild a civilization on the banks of the Nile which will never pass away until Gabriel blows his horn. Darwin and Huxley said we were monkeys...
Prof. Huxley, of the School of Mines, London−Grasped the truths of Charles Darwin, refined, elaborated them to serve as the key to modern biological sciences...
...pledged to vote for Macartney. Dr. Stone refused to believe a word of this. Then on the eve of election, appeared William Jennings Bryan who, having once been crucified on a cross of gold, is devoting his chief energies to a pitched battle with the ghost of one Charles Darwin. Political gossip boiled. Now Dr. Stone is a Fundamentalist. He is a busy churchman who has to his credit one of the U. S.'s finest Churches and Church-houses. He believes ardently in the good old Bible and the good old Gospel. He has no time to investigate...