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...conman named Moses. Moses is Robert Mitchum, a diamond smuggler and quack doctor who peddles muscle tonic to the natives, packs precious stones in his stethoscope, and conducts his exodus with the unholier-than-thou sneer of a rascal who interprets Mosaic law as the survival of the fittest. Mitchum looks most comfortable when he climbs aboard an elephant called Emily and terrorizes the bureaucrat in charge of the sluice gates of an artificial lake, whereupon the waters part...
Survival of the Fittest. Even as staunch an admirer as Coleridge found Darwin's poetry "nauseating." Nevertheless, The Botanic Garden, a scientific treatise in rhymed couplets, was a bestseller during his lifetime, and its descriptive lines were vastly admired by many of his contemporaries...
...breaking news. While a great many TIME stories are the result of careful ad vance planning, all are flexible and subject to the changing pressures of events right down to press time-and occasionally beyond. The result is a form of weekly evolution in which only the fittest stories survive -those held by the editors to be most important, significant, interesting. To choose from a worldful of events, each clamoring for attention and space, is a difficult, exciting and sometimes painful business...
...Jamaica Committee, on the other hand, attracted scientists and philosophers. Charles Darwin was passionately involved, even though his own theory of the survival of the fittest had been bor rowed by the imperialists. Darwin was joined by John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and Charles Lyell. Thomas Henry Huxley was moved to sardonic eloquence: "I daresay Eyre did all this with the best of motives, and in a heroic vein. But if English law will not declare that heroes have no more right to kill in this fashion than other folk, I shall take an early opportunity of migrating to Texas...
...Reader Carnes mind his language. As Francis Bacon said: "Such dispositions are the very errors of human nature; and yet they are the fittest timber to make politics...