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...servant mother and a father who would rather play cricket than run his failing crockery shop in Kent. Wells escaped from genteel poverty when he moved from draper's assistant to scholarship student at London University in 1884. There he came under the lasting influence of Darwin's disciple, T.E. Huxley. It is not hard to imagine how Wells would be impressed by a theory that made the monkey the common ancestor of kings and cockneys. He was soon mixing Darwinian science and the social philosophy of Herbert Spencer in articles and stories that found ready outlets...
Black capitalism's champions and critics generally agree that some kind of Government-sponsored program must be continued, but that it must not concentrate on failure-prone small businesses. Says Darwin W. Bolden, a member of the President's Advisory Council on Minority Enterprise: "It's time to take the next step and begin to develop a clear-cut blueprint from which you will move blacks from the mom-and-pop stage to the mainstream of American business-knowing that it is going to take at least another decade...
Over the past few months I have come increasingly to consider myself a modern successor to the late Charles Darwin. Both of us early in life came to weird places where by closely examining the mutant native fauna we began, I think, to unravel a few of those major questions life poses us. There are other parallels to explore: I have often been told I look like a beagle. While it seems self-evident that the city of Cambridge is a Galapagos for humans, I am still left with the word "Archipelago." Until I find a dictionary that defines Archipelago...
...modern rationalists are trembling on the brink of the stupendous discovery that "man has an irreducible core of evil"-which seems to be intellectualese for the old-fashioned concept that he is a sinner. Is it possible that after wandering for years in the wilderness with Marx, Freud and Darwin, they are about to return to the Father's house...
Bill Hands scattered ten hits and Bobby Darwin, Larry Hisle and Joe Lis hit home runs as the Minnesota Twins buried the Boston Red Sox 10-3 under a 14-hit attack...