Word: evolutionism
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The English language is a menagerie of words. Some of the words are as wild and terrible as brown bears, some are as sudden and delicate as gazelles; some, when they are led out of their cages to the pavilion of print, growl and mutter, roar like lions or bark...
Principal Tate spent a good part of his time explaining to the eighth grade how and why the theory of evolution was incredible and wicked. Last week pupil Elizabeth Walker scampered up to Principal Tate saying, "What is the difference between evolution and revolution?" Principal Tate told her what revolution...
The children sat very still for a while after that. They could see "evolution" dancing around in his cage, twinkling his terrible eyes at them, smiling at them with his wide black lips. Soon he would jump out of his cage and wrap his arms around them. One little girl...
They objected to a teacher who would use the word that Principal Tate had used in front of their children. When Mr. Colson asked one of the parents what "evolution" meant, the parent said: "I do not know and I do not want to know but I do know that...
"The Ethics of Evolution." Professor Perry, Emerson A.