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Adrian Desmond Biography

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Adrian Desmond, born in 1947, is an accomplished writer known for his profound insights into human emotions and social issues. His works span various genres, and he is recognized for his unique narrative style.

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“Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.”

Thinking Real Feelings Reading Lessons Absence Theology Huxley Truth And Beauty

Author:Adrian Desmond

“Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.”

“A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.”

Thinking Men Littles Said Seems Heard Mere Creeds Sermons Huxley Norwich

Author:Adrian Desmond

“William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.”

Science Religion Christianity Ignorance Flower Evolution Superstitions Cleansing Dissolving Dross

Author:Adrian Desmond

About the Author

Born: 1947
Known for: Writer
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