To: VadeRetro
>> Heard him say, "I wouldn't worship a God who used evolution to create us."<<
Reminds me of the old story about the transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller, who said, "I accept the universe!"
To which Thomas Carlyle quipped, "By Gad, she'd better!"
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07/09/2003 8:05:56 PM PDT by
CobaltBlue
(Never voted for a Democrat in my life.)
To: CobaltBlue
Carlyle himself got quipped upon. His marriage was notably unhappy.
"Isn't it a pity that such a couple ever married?" "No, no," said Tennyson, with a sort of smile under his rough beard. "It's much better that two people should be made unhappy than four."
Famous Affinities of History: the Carlyles.
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