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...dead, he said, nor can it be killed by legislative enactment. Any one who refuses to believe in it today is ignorant or bigoted. In its main outlines it has passed out of the realm of theory into that of fact. Evidence for it is far stronger than in Darwin's day, and we know more about heredity today than Darwin ever dreamed...
Much of the present conflict is due to the popular tendency to confuse evolution with Darwinism. The idea of evolution, as opposed to special creation, was known long before Darwin?even to the Greeks, in fact. All that Darwin did was to suggest a plausible explanation of how it might have occurred. Some parts of Darwin's explanation have since been called in question. The influence of natural selection, his favorite theory, is not agreed upon; his emphasis on Lamarck's doctrine of the inheritance of characters acquired by environmental factors such as use and disuse is now largely discredited...
...Irving Fisher, H. H. Goddard, Warner Fite, George H. Palmer, William P. Montague, Roswell H. Johnson, C C Little, Samuel J. Holmes, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Madison Grant, (Theodore) Lothrop Stoddard, Charles W. Eliot, Charles B. Davenport, Havelock Ellis, H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, George Bernard Shaw, Harold Cox, Leonard Darwin, Dean Inge...
Guttie Balls. At Woking, on the Surrey dunes, England amused herself with her annual investigation into the idiosyncrasies of the old- fashioned gutta percha ball. A notable group of players, including long-hitting Cyril Tolley, " ancient " Bernard Darwin, Roger Wethered, C. V. L. Hooman, E. W. E. Holderness, conducted experiments. Wethered managed to hew out a 77. Tolley, who can drive over 300 yards with abnormal rubber cored ball, did little better than 200 with his gutta percha pellet...
...appearance in English of The Life of the Scorpion,* the capstone in the great ten-volume series of Souvenirs Entomologiques, together with the centenary of his birth (1823) brings to mind again the life labor of Jean Henri Fabre, " the insects' Homer," whom Darwin called "a savant who thinks like a philosopher and writes like a poet." Fabre died in 1915 at the age of 92, but posthumous works are still coming out, enhancing the fame and affection which the world began to accord him only toward the end of his hardship-ridden life. The Life of the Scorpion...