Word: darwin
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...notable literary biographies of recent years. This biography of one of America's foremost historians tells, largely in Fiske's own words, of his boyhood and youth, his early championship of the "cosmic philosophy," his intimate association with such leaders of thought as Herbert Spencer, Thomas Huxley and Charles Darwin and his services as an historian and man of letters. The biographer, a life-long friend and associate of Fiske, has written with unusual intimacy and understanding and by his extensive use of Fiske's own lively letters and journals, gives a peculiarly vivid picture, both of Fiske himself...