Word: ancestors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inp09sscession of the facts as far as I can sec. I cannot understand how a man's belief in evolution can interfere with his being a Christian if he wants to believe in Christianity. It seems to me that whether a man prefers to believe that his original ancestor was made out of mud or whether he thinks in the other hand that his ancestor was an ape he ought in either case of appre- ciate the social value of the teaching of Christ. I am not in the least discomposed by Mr. Bryan's attitude toward evolution...
General Seymour produced the story of his ancestor, told how he had rescued Leonora Hudson, a sailor's wife, from two ruffians, how he subsequently married her after the death of her husband in India. The General contended that John Hudson, husband of Leonora, died in 1786, was buried in Calcutta on Sept. 17 of the same year. On Sept. 3, 1787, Francis Seymour married her, became the ancestor of the plaintiff...
...Mediterranean shoal, Sturly pricked his nose against a crawling globe with reddish spines. The globe chuckled, softly. It was old Echinus, the Sea-Urchin, the malefemale, ancestor of the oceans, in whom are all the joys of love and all human knowledge. Sturly was respectful of his counsel...
...which, in spite of its verse form, Edward J. O'Brien lists among the fine short stories of the year. These sketches will some day be collected in a volume. It was during this time, too, that she perpetrated her literary hoax, a la her famous ancestor, and fooled the public for many months with A Critical Fable, published first anonymously, finally acknowledged. The Sonnets to Duse should not be forgotten; they were a glowing tribute to a great genius and a friend...
From earliest times the eclipse has been an occasion of awe and wonder. Savages used to abase themselves before the frown of God, and a religious ritual is still celebrated by Mohammedans on these days. Civilized man smiles at primitive superstition, and yet he is not different from his ancestor, for he still feels within himself the same quiver of respect. But with it is mingled a vast pride in man-made science which charts out and predicts even the minutest movements of the planets. The scientist, on this day, receives the full meed of popular awe before his divination...