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fashionable body: strategically placed cushions of fat

Although the human shape was designed by the greatest of artists, His taste does not necessarily coincide with ours; at no time did man accept the image in which he was created as final… …Another, far more enduring, not to … Continue reading

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fashionable body: art of reading bumps

The urge to alter the body is felt by the human being alone. Animals, enjoying the advantage of healthier instincts, do not share it… …Admiration for elongated heads has been widespread among such dissimilar peoples as the ancient Egyptians, the … Continue reading

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fashionable bodies

No shoe was too bone breaking, nor corset too breathtaking, nor bodily alteration too excruciating fro man not to have tried it out in his continuing pursuit of the fashionable body. The urge to alter his body is felt by … Continue reading

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darwin: hooker, line, and sink or swim

…Darwin’s own account suggests that in part he owed the inspiration for his theory to reading T.R. Malthus’s Essay on Population which was written in 1798, though the dates in Darwin’s journal throw some doubt on this. Malthus’s essay purports … Continue reading

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darwin:blind chance of divine mutation

…The theory of evolution in biology was already an old, even a discredited, one. Darwin, in his preface to The Origin of Species, listed more than thirty precursors- and was accused, in spite of this, of serious omissions. Greek thinkers … Continue reading

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darwin: pinning the tail on the honkey

…It was the unscientific character of early evolutionary theory that made scientists like Lyell and Huxley, and Darwin himself, skeptical. All the same, their predecessors made some telling points. There were the improvements made in some domesticated animals and plant … Continue reading

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young darwin: denial of the fittest

…Darwin himself was a lover of nature, a collector and sportsman, before he was a man of science. He grew up with the tastes of an English provincial gentleman at a time whn hunting, shooting, and the breeding of horses … Continue reading

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darwin…waiting the gates of eden

The times of Charles Darwin. It can be said that in Darwin’s England of the nineteenth century the world was not only imaginatively comprehensible, it was benevolently ordered and Abraham was a sheik… …Much of this apparent coziness was due … Continue reading

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darwin: bug hunting as trojan horse

…Moreover, men were beginning to have some understanding of the complex interactions in nature, of the contribution to the animal and vegetable “balance” of even the noxious and disagreeable. To pursue in any detail the pleasing evidences of divine purpose … Continue reading

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darwin: missing links on those facts

…Huxley made the famous retort, in response to Bishop Wilberforce’s gibe, that he would prefer to have an ape for a grandfather than a man “possessed of great means and influence” who used his influence to bring an important scientific … Continue reading

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