Private Doubt, Public Dilemma by Keith Stewart Thomson

Private Doubt, Public Dilemma by Keith Stewart Thomson

Author:Keith Stewart Thomson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-03-11T04:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER SEVEN

Debates and Academics

Dear Darwin, I have just come in from my last moonlight saunter at Oxford … & cannot go to bed without inditing a few lines to you my dear old Darwin…. On Saturday … [a] paper of a yankee donkey called Draper on “civilization according to the Darwinian hypothesis” or some such title was being read, & it did not mend my temper … however hearing that Soapy Sam was to answer I waited to hear the end. The meeting was so large that they had adjourned to the Library which was crammed with between 700 & 1000 people, for all the world was there to hear Sam Oxon—Well Sam Oxon got up & spouted for half an hour with inimitable spirit uglyness & emptyness & unfairness … he ridiculed you badly.1



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