Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Darwin to Date. It was 68 years since that gentlest of men, Charles Darwin, had trundled into position a battery of facts, collected patiently for many years, and blown mankind from its citadel of Biblical belief in its special divine origin. Sir Arthur Keith, whose audience included a kingdomful of radio listeners and a worldful of newspaper readers, proposed to review the Darwinian batteries; to report on their condition and any changes made in them since Darwin's time; and to affirm, once for all, the official stand of British science on Darwin's proposition that humanity...
...Arthur confined himself to nothing more than a bare outline of Darwin's achievement, contenting himself with the assertion that the human species has been evolved from a "humble primate animal" and that man and ape have a common ancestor. The theory itself was not otherwise touched upon...
...great strides made since Darwin's day Sir Arthur was more specific. And he ended by asking: "Was Darwin right when he said that man under the action of biological forces which can be observed and measured, has been raised from a place among the anthropoid apes to that which he now occupies ? The answer is Yes! and in returning this verdict I speak but as foreman of the jury, a jury which has been empaneled from men who have devoted a lifetime to weighing the evidence. To the best of my ability I have avoided, in laying before...
...Darwin's Delight. Arthur Brisbane, Hearstling seer, certainly no poet, found other ways to comment on Captain Lindbergh's flight. One of the aviator's chief regrets was that he had not been able to see a whale. "It is too bad," said Mr. Brisbane, "for Lindbergh, flying low to study spouting whale; the whale studying Lindbergh with its tiny eyes would have been a sight to delight Darwin...
...Darwin's Bird. At the Field Museum in Chicago, the public may now see two specimens of a straight-billed reed "runner similar to those which Charles Darwin saw on his famed cruise in the Beagle in 1831. This species of bird, long believed to be extinct, was shipped from Uruguay by C. C. Sanborn two months ago, along with 3,342 other birds, reptiles, mammals...