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...lonely bachelor was alone in his rooms, he would find himself face to face with what Author Lennon believes was the other major problem of his life - his religious beliefs. To be a rebel in Victorian England required unusual boldness, and while such doughty fighters as Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley and Samuel Butler were openly questioning the authority of the Church, the Rev. Mr. Dodgson was doing his utmost to quiet the tormenting questions that filled his brilliant, inquisitive mind. Cursed with insomnia, he would put himself to sleep by endless inventions of games, gadgets, toys, puzzles in mathematics...
Bellamy was an excellent reviewer. Discussing the works of such contemporaries as Darwin and Oliver Wendell Holmes, he wrote provocatively of strikes, schools, child labor, prison camps, Brook Farm. At 32 he married a 21-year-old orphan whom his parents had adopted at 13, settled down to write short stories and historical novels (Dr. Heidenhoff's Process, The Duke of Stockbridge). William Dean Howells hailed him as a new Hawthorne. Bellamy also put his savings ($1,200) into a new paper, the Springfield Penny News, and made it prosper before he sold it to his brother...
...Some dropsy symptoms from Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden...
Springtime in Darwin. Picking up fugitive flyers from Bataan and Java, including the early-famed Buzz Wagner, the Eighth and Ninth squadrons followed the Seventh northward, reaching Darwin bases in time for the big Japanese raid on April 25. In that first real baptism of fire, the Forty-niners bagged 24 Jap bombers and nine fighters without suffering a single loss. By Aug. 1, six months after arriving in Australia, they had run their score to 60, had lost only three pilots. On Aug. 12 they received a Presidential unit citation, then plunged into the battle for New Guinea...
Until early 1943 the Forty-niners flew nothing but P-40s. Then they reluctantly accepted their first P-38 Lightnings. "The P-38 was strictly a truck," says one squadron's records, describing the first reaction of pilots. "Old Darwin men knew they would never see the real scramble again or . . . the close-quarter hairy old rat races above the field." But after the required 50 hours' training in P-38s, all the Forty-niners were won over...