Word: darwinism
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...high Victorian seriousness. Thanks to science, industry and moral philosophy, mankind's steps had at last been guided unerringly up the right path. The century of steam was about to give way to the century of oil and electricity, new and transforming sources of power and light. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, only 41 years old in 1900, proposed a scientific basis for the notion that progress was gradual but inevitable, ordained by natural...
Wright managed to enrapture a particular type of rich man -- Great Lakes ! mercantile magnates. Darwin Martin, a mail-order-soap chief executive from Buffalo, commissioned houses and offices and lent him tens of thousands of dollars. Fallingwater was the country house of Pittsburgh department-store owner Edgar Kaufmann, and for "Hib" Johnson of Johnson's Wax he designed an enormous house as well as a corporate headquarters. Richard Lloyd Jones, the architect's newspaper-publisher cousin, called him a "strutting, self- seeking, self-centered charmer" -- but he loved the house Wright built him, even though it (typically) went 50% over...
That's an evolution Charles Darwin would be impressed with...
...rightly regarded as the father of modern psychiatry -- as revolutionary a thinker as Darwin, as daring an explorer of the interior world as Columbus was of the exterior. Sigmund Freud not only developed the most profound theory to explain the workings of the human mind, but he also devised much of the terminology -- from Oedipus complex to penis envy -- that has become part of the language. The discipline he founded, psychoanalysis, became the world's most famous technique for helping the troubled come to grips with the demons haunting their minds...
...Clandon, played by Gay Swirsky in a furtrimmed hat, is a well-preserved woman determined in her espousal of "twentieth century principles." She stridently avows her support of women's rights to vote, own property and read Darwin...