Word: darwinism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Joseph Cook, the eminent lecturer, recently made the following comparison regarding the religious views of three of the most distinguished scientists of this century-Dr. Asa Gray, Darwin and Huxley. It will doubtless be of interest to all from the fact that Dr. Gray was, before his death, so intimately connected with all religious movements in the college...
Only a short time ago we laid to rest a leader in science who declared himself to be at the same time an evolutionist, a theist and a believer in the Nicene creed. Gray was like Darwin in respect to the religious use which he made of evolution. The judgment of our soundest minds is that theism is to suffer at the hands of evolution, not destruction, but reconstruction. Darwin admitted that no one understood the philosophy of evolution better than the late great botanist. Gray had stronger grasp on philosophy than Darwin. Gray was gifted with a clearer insight...
...years he has planted the seeds and borne almost single-banded the burden of the botanical harvest. It would be difficult to point to any other scientific man, with the single exception of Charles Darwin, who has in his own department of learning so entirely impressed himself upon the intellectual growth of a nation. No greater void in the scientific world has been made since the death of Louis Agassiz, the naturalist...
...second motive of knowledge is the ambition to accomplish some great end. But many of the greatest men were quite indifferent to appearances or reception, of which a notable instance was Darwin...
Yesterday's Herald contains an editorial on Emerson and Darwin which from a literary point of view is far above the work generally found in the daily papers...