Word: darwinism
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...conclusion is plain. Only those discoveries will be made which are in accord with the doctrines of the church, and if any discoveries do not agree with church tenets, it is a plain mandate to change the beliefs of the church to accord with the new revelations. If Darwin had only employed such methods, the theory of evolution would doubtless be taught now in all Sunday schools...
Cane's chief interest in life was not groceries. It was science. Through the long suburban evenings, he burned the oil of his lamp over Flammarion and Darwin, mentally roving the ages and the heavens, weaving complicated theories of Alan and his motives, Science and its future...
...Emerson had clearly seen the unity which runs through all life, even before Darwin published his "Origin of Species...
Married. Miss Emily Winthrop, 31, and Miss Kate Winthrop, 24, daughters of Grenville Lindall Win throp, retired capitalist, "whose wealth is reported to match that of anys man in Lenox," respectively to Corey Miles, 33, chauffeur, and Darwin Morse, 23, electrician; at Lenox, Mass., by elopement. Winthrop, a direct descendant of John Winthrop, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts, was unnerved. Said the Lenox cleric who married them: "Well, they are nice young people?as nice as you'll find anywhere these days...
...When the white men were living in caves and were barbarous, we Negroes gave them a civilization they snatched away from us. We will rebuild a civilization on the banks of the Nile which will never pass away until Gabriel blows his horn. Darwin and Huxley said we were monkeys...