Word: darwinians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today as a character in a ribald polysyllabic ditty beginning: Recent exhaustive researches By Darwin and Huxley and Hall . . . than as the biologist who first generalized upon the development of ectoderm and endoderm, who "freed British scientific thought from its vice of deductive reasoning," who interpreted, clarified, broadened the Darwinian evolutionary hypothesis...
Aldous Huxley, nephew of the great Darwinian, smart, fashionable, blasé, ice-cold, most devilishly clever of all the devilishly clever young littérateurs who make the waterside, of Chelsea inundate all London with lavender and mauve intellectual meanderings, has written down his opinion of the popular music of today. The essay has been published-in Vanity Fair. It defends the thesis that the evolution of popular music has run parallel, on a lower plane, with the evolution of serious music. Beethoven, ultimately and indirectly, is responsible for all the lan- guishing waltz tunes, all the dramatic jazzings...
...Straton has figured prominently in the recent controversy of Fundamentalism versus Modernism, advocating a literal, rather than a modern, interpretation of the Bible. He disbelieves in evolution in the Darwinian sense...
...Pearson himself is one of the world's greatest scientists, a man distinctly in the Darwinian tradition, and exponent of the eugenics movement founded by Francis Galton, professor of applied mathematics at University College, London, Director of the Galton Laboratory there. He has built up almost single-handed the modern science of higher statistics, including the coefficient of correlation, and is editor of Biometrika. One of his greatest works, The Grammar of Science, is the Bible of statisticians and exact scientists. Presumably he hopes to make the Darwin property another such intellectual center as he has founded in London...
...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...