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...wished the department of agriculture to issue a bulletin on them. To prove the desirability of his request, by unanimous consent he "extended" his remarks in the Record, and filled four pages with an all-comprehensive dissertation on canines from Noah's time to this. It begins with the Darwinian theory, includes mention of the drawings on the tombs of the Egyptian Kings, and contains almost every dog enlogy except Goldsmith's famous elegy. The essay has well over one hundred paragraphs, and is full of ance dotes, pathetic stories, and amazing statistics...
...secondary schools, would surely do good. This, and the industrial regeneration hoped for as the result of the Muscle Shoals scheme, are probably the two things which just now may prevent the future conception of a bill such as was recently introduced in the Kentucky Legislature, prohibiting teaching the Darwinian theory in state-supported schools. In view of this possible hope for the South, it may be expected that the Nathan-Mencken school of professional South-haters will oppose this legislation...
Over in Kentucky they are having quite a little discussion as to whether they ought to permit the Darwinian theory of evolution to be taught in the state-supported schools. "The entire state", we are told, "has been aroused by allegations made on both sides"; William Jennings Bryan has even consented to stump for the "antis". The main opposition comes from the rural districts where the opinions of the distinguished biologist are held to be contrary to the Bible "as it is written". Evidently the people of Kentucky are unwilling to admit that "Bo" McMillin and his team are descended...
Harving decided that the evolutionary hypothesis of the late Charles Darwin is moonshine, the Kentuckians appear strangely reluctant to swallow it. It is a sad commentary on transportation conditions that even such a weighty matter as the Darwinian theory should have been sixty years on the road across the Appalachians. The rest of us have our jazz, and our divorce problem, out movies and our bonus bills, but "The Origin of Species" is as completely vanished from the public mind as are last year's "Follies". The mental agony which rocked the world half a century ago now shakes Kentucky...
...Thirty or forty years ago there was the same discussion of academic freedom as today, but then the conflict waged about Darwin. Many earnest persons argued that no college professor should be allowed to support the Darwinian theory lest the young college man lose his religion. The investigation of evolution continued, however; the Darwinians won, and no one now contends that the results have been fatal to religion or morality...