Word: darwinism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Sir Francis Darwin, 77, distinguished botanist, originator of the theory that plants have an "unconscious memory," asker of the question "Do plants think?" thrice a widower, son of the famed Charles Darwin; at Cambridge, England...
...Darwin P. Kingsley...
...gathering of all ages that filled the lecture halls of the Hartley Institution. There were venerable gentlemen with fluffy white halos about their erudite pates, who recalled a day when the Association had been rent asunder by the disclosures of Darwin and his interpreter Huxley. There were shingled, short-skirted, plain-spoken young women to whom the vagaries of sex-cell chromosomes and a material conception of the universe were as fit and familar topics of conversation as were knitting and amateur meteorological observations to their grandmothers. There was the mooning notable who wandered, followed by his disciples...
...spirit fetches him back through time to such scenes as the burning of Pythagoras and his Golden Brotherhood, Leonardo picking up fossils on the Florentine hills, Darwin bareheaded before an ant in Kent, Huxley impaling bland Bishop Wilberforce before the British Association. The latter episode, vividly reconstructed, is the high point of the narrative and is brought into sharp relief by a humorous glimpses of Miss Eliza Pym of Woodstock, blushing furiously but consumed with curiosity to hear that the wild flowers she draws in delicate, virginal water-colors have...
...assurance that the automobile passed across the continent, although he might have to guess as to why the trip was made and who financed it. Similarly, Evolutionists look upon Evolution as an established fact and advance various guesses (theories) as to why life has made this extraordinary journey. Mr. Darwin saw perhaps a dozen photographs, guessed that the trip had been made, and advanced a number of guesses as to why it had been made. Some of Darwin's guesses at causes have been discredited, and other guesses made, but the collection of photographs has grown year by year...