Word: evolutionism
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Suddenly, Spain began to talk more kindly of cooperation with France. With a faintly patronizing air, French Resident General André Louis Dubois drove over to the Spanish zone for a "courtesy" call on his Spanish counterpart, Lieut. General Rafael Garcia Valino. Dubois' main concern was to get Spanish...
Sometimes this is rewarding. Hymned, the workers' cause has less stridency than when harangued. And when O'Casey's outcast street figures raise their voices in a dream of fair Dublin, there is a sudden sense of a city's voice upraised. But things seem oftener...
Apes, Angels and Victorians, by William Irvine, succeeded remarkably well in bringing to life the whole controversy that followed Darwin's announcement of his theory of evolution. Better still, it produced a fine portrait of crotchety, brilliant Charles Darwin himself. One of the year's most readable books...
They kept a firm hand on manners and morals: dancing, drinking, smoking were Baptist sins, and horse racing was almost as bad as horse stealing. When the Bible needed explaining, the Baptists were not afraid to do it by sheer lung power; when it needed defending against the eggheads of...
WE all have to come to terms with death, all of us who live long enough to know that it happens, long enough to welcome it or fear it. In this scientific age most of us accept the biological doctrine that birth and death are the essential machinery of evolution...