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Letters of Dr. Samuel Johnson, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, and Lord Macaulay and to this interesting collection of autographs. Two other letters of historical significance is one of William of Prussia who later became the Emperor William the First of Germany and one of Catherine the Great of Russia. The note of the former is amusing in its content, asking that special provision may be made by the addressee to allow the writer's sister and aunt who are under quarantine for scarlet fever to attend a ball...
...life spanned the 18th century (1703-1791), thus antedating Darwin, but he seems nevertheless to have left a suggestion to his posthumous flock in Tennessee: "The whole progress of nature is so gradual, that the entire chasm from a plant to a man, is filled up with divers kinds of creatures, rising one above another, by so gentle an ascent, that the transitions from one species to another are almost insensible. . . . The ape is this rough draught of man: this rude sketch. . . ." Indeed Wesley had written A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation: or, A Compendium...
...structure stands on the site of the old Madison Square Garden, lifts its glinting spire 617 feet above the pavements. In a banquet hall on the 14th floor a dedicatory ceremony was held, last week. President Coolidge, button-punching at the White House, flooded the feast with light. President Darwin Pearl Kingsley of the New York Life Insurance Co. made the opening address, which was broadcast to 2,300,000 policy holders whose insurance totals $6,800,000,000. Said he: "Beauty is the natural handmaiden of power and power is the dominant note in modern American architecture. Here...
...hypothetical ape immortalized Charles Darwin; and last week it seemed that a no less remarkable ape-a spiritual ape-might perform the same service for Stanley Baldwin, His Majesty's Prime Minister...
...question whether the world should ever have advanced had we never had these so called "fools". A study of historical progress might seem then, according to this thesis, a study of fools in chronological order beginning with Socrates and following through with Erasmus, Copernicus, Bruno, Sir Thomas Moore, Tolstoy, Darwin, and last, but tritely enough, not least, Stephen Vincent Benet...