Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collection of letters and excerpts from the journals of her mother, Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Included are many new letters of Thackeray, some of the most amusing ones written during his lecture tour in America. Among the pages one comes upon Ibsen, Keats, the Brownings, "dear old Mr. Carlyle,," Darwin, Ruskin, Stevenson, "lunching with us at Paris, tossing back his hair...
...later forte by earning for himself the sobriquet of the "last-place pupil".--Waterloo was to see him starring in his old position, with Wellington showing that laziness is superior to mere lack of education, such as Napoleon's. These Germans, in invading the scientific world, find further that Darwin neglected his three R's shamefully, and in his naturalistic zeal set out on many punitive expeditions after cats. Nelson, Clive, and Goldsmith also find their names on the roll of the "know-nothings...
With him-on a voyage which may yet rival that of Darwin's Beagle-are 15 expert helpers. For Simmons seeks to learn the truth about Atlantis, the "continent" that lies in the twilight zone between mythology, history and science. What, when and where was it? Who inhabited it? What became of it? These are some of the questions the expedition hopes to settle...
...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...