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Among the remarkable achievements of latter-day America is the consolidation of the service of God and Mammon. Dr. Straton has lately put himself at the head of the Supreme Kingdom, an organization "to combat atheism, and its cursed ally, evolution", and to raise 1,000,000 dollars for the...
A new word was coined, "Funda-monkeyist," applied by the bill's friends to patient Bishop Charles Edward Locke of the Methodist Church, who replied, "This whole anti-Evolution business is getting tiresome . . . has no more to do with personal religion than the Pons Asinorum."*
The purpose of the Supreme Kingdom is to "combat atheism and its accursed ally, evolution." It points to the spread of atheism in the South, as evidenced by pamphlets urging unbelief which have recently appeared in great quantity, given away at street corners and in the arcades of office buildings...
ESSAYS IN POPULAR SCIENCE? Julian S. Huxley?Knopf ($4). "There is a danger," says the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley (Evolution), "in these days of manifold information and broadcast amusement, that the world will become divided into those who have to think for their living and those who never think...
Yet as a contribution to society this book is less commendable than the same author's Essays of a Biologist. Therein the long view was more sustained?the implications of biology in the future, the sanity of birth control, the purpose of evolution and kindred philosophical speculations upon the findings...