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Shaw the iconoclast was not exempt from the Victorian passion for theological speculation. "Mere agnosticism leads nowhere," he once wrote. "I hold as firmly as St. Thomas Aquinas that all truths, ancient or modern, are divinely inspired." Shaw believed in evolution, but was worried about the diverse effects of Darwinist thinking. He agreed, with Samuel Butler, that "by banishing purpose from natural history Darwin had banished mind from the universe." Shaw would have no part of a universe from which a first-rate mind (such as his own) was expelled...
...that none of Immanuel Velikovsky's number of books are curiously absent from Harvard's collection? Could it be because Velikovsky launches a plausible attack against some of the scientists most cherished Darwinist theories? J. Cooper Dorchester
...questions Holmes's "mixture of over-simplifications concerning the nature of law and truth," and second, his "monumental complacency in regard to the society around him." The second point is mostly a matter of interpretation, but the first deserves exploration. Holmes was a philosophical skeptic and a social Darwinist. To him, there was no such animal as "Truth." To Holmes the philosophical skeptic, "Pleasures are ultimate and in case of difference between on self and another there is nothing to do except in unimportant matters to think ill of him and in important ones to kill him." To Holmes...
Like his penguins, anti-Darwinist Gerald Heard believes that the meek do indeed inherit the earth, and that the strong end up as fossils. He also believes that men might live as harmoniously as his penguins if they would learn to contemplate like Quakers and to aspire to extrasensory experience like Brahmin Yogis. Since 1937, Expatriate Heard has been expounding these doctrines from a home in Laguna Beach. Calif...
...since the experience in question is fatal. Example: protective coloring in insects. If the coloring is defective and the insect is detected and devoured by preying birds, it cannot profit by the experience of being eaten or pass on any profit to any offspring. Only alternative is the neo-Darwinist conclusion that the insects which happen to have the most protective coloring will live longest and pass on their advantages to large numbers of offspring...