Word: evolutionism
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Angry, desperately sincere, perfectly aware that the overwhelming weight of opinion was against him, a distinguished 69-year-old zoologist glared at his colleagues, raised his voice, bounced up & down on his heels last week at the British Association for the Advancement of Science convention in Norwich. It was just...
"You realize, of course, my dear MacBride, that you stand against the opinion of practically the whole biological world." It was not that Dr. MacBride could not stomach the fundamental fact of organic evolution. Probably no sane biologist, and certainly none of Dr. MacBride's calibre, remains unconvinced that...
Said Dr. MacBride last week: "If a parent acquired a habit after long and painful trials, his child will acquire the habit, not at birth, but after fewer trials. If that is true the whole problem of evolution is solved."
¶ Lucky, as usual, was the Saturday Evening Post, with a series of articles about Huey Long already appearing (Prelude to a Heterocrat: The Evolution of Huey Long, by Hermann B. Deutsch). Observers recalled how the Satevepost, which goes to press five weeks in advance of publication, had an article...
In other words, cotton control had put farmers into tobacco, and tobacco control had put them into peanuts, and peanut control had put them into potatoes. Potato Control was adopted as an AAA evolution to protect about 30,000 farmers who make their main living out of potatoes and do...