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3b54aa5 As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating the most absurd propositions with faces solemn as stupidity touched by fear. It is a part of their business to malign and vilify the , , , , Tyndalls, , , , and Drapers, and to bow with uncovered heads before the murderers, adulterers, and persecutors of the world. They are, for the most part, engaged in poisoning the minds of the young, prejudicing children against science, teaching the astronomy and geology of the bible, and inducing all to desert the sublime standard of reason. prejudice mind world stupidity reason fear adulterers alexander-humboldt children-science david-hume draper ernst-haeckel haeckel herbert-spencer humboldt hume john-draper john-william-draper persecutors propositions spencer theologian vilify wilhelm-humboldt wilhelm-von-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt murderers astronomy charles-darwin theologians geology afterlife theology darwin paine thomas-paine voltaire sublime knowledge power poison john-tyndall tyndall Robert G. Ingersoll
f8092af was born in a brick farmhouse in Lancaster Mass, he walked through the woods one winter crunching through the shinycrusted snow stumbling into a little dell where a warm spring was and found the grass green and weeds sprouting and skunk cabbage pushing up a potent thumb, He went home and sat by the stove and read Struggle for Existence Origin of Species Natural Selection that wasn't what they taught in church, so ceased to believe moved to Lunenburg, found a seedball in a potato plant sowed the seed and cashed in on 's Natural Selection on and with the Burbank potato. Young man go west; went to Santa Rosa full of his dream of green grass in winter ever- blooming flowers ever- bearing berries; could cash in on Natural Selection carried his apocalyptic dream of green grass in winter and seedless berries and stoneless plums and thornless roses brambles cactus-- winters were bleak in that bleak brick farmhouse in bleak Massachusetts-- out to sunny Santa Rosa; and he was a sunny old man where roses bloomed all year everblooming everbearing hybrids. America was hybrid America could cash in on Natural Selection. He was an infidel he believed in and Natural Selection and the influence of the mighty dead and a good firm shipper's fruit suitable for canning. He was one of the grand old men until the churches and the congregations got wind that he was an infidel and believed in . had never a thought of evil, selected improved hybrids for America those sunny years in Santa Rosa. But he brushed down a wasp's nest that time; he wouldn't give up and Natural Selection and they stung him and he died puzzled. They buried him under a cedartree. His favorite photograph was of a little tot standing beside a bed of hybrid everblooming double Shasta daisies with never a thought of evil And Mount Shasta in the background, used to be a volcano but they don't have volcanos any more. t-h-huxley thomas-h-huxley thomas-henry-huxley thomas-huxley huxley herbert-spencer spencer luther-burbank charles-darwin darwin John Dos Passos