To: eleni121
Do you know what these words mean?
I shd prefer the Part or Volume not to be dedicated to me (though I thank you for the intended honour) as this implies to a certain extent my approval of the general publication, about which I know nothing...
1,431 posted on
12/20/2005 5:35:17 PM PST by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: VadeRetro
And the important thing too is that the book Darwin declined to have dedicated to him was not Kapital, but a book called *The Student Darwin*. There was never an attempt by Marx to have Kapital dedicated to Darwin.
1,434 posted on
12/20/2005 5:39:11 PM PST by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
To: VadeRetro
They mean Darwin was smart enough to weasel his way out of directly endorsing a controversial publication. Some might call it "testifying inconsistently."
To: VadeRetro
The old fogey writes this:
"...yet it appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; & freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follow from the advance of science." What a sneaky conniver! Get it?
1,593 posted on
12/20/2005 7:42:23 PM PST by
eleni121
('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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