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“He [Erasmus Darwin] used to say that 'unitarianism was a feather-bed to catch a falling Christian.”

Christian Unitarian Erasmus Darwin

Book:The Life of Erasmus Darwin

Source: The Life of Erasmus Darwin

“In the beginning of the eighteenth century, De Maillet made the first serious attempt to apply the doctrine [of evolution] to the living world. In the latter part of it, Erasmus Darwin, Goethe, and Lamarck took up the work more vigorously and with better qualifications. The question of special creation, or evolution, lay at the bottom of the fierce disputes which broke out in the French Academy between Cuvier and St.-Hilaire; and, for a time, the supporters of biological evolution were silenced, if not answered, by the alliance of the greatest naturalist of the age with their ecclesiastical opponents. Catastrophism, a short-sighted teleology, and a still more short-sighted orthodoxy, joined forces to crush evolution.”

Science Evolution Science And Religion Orthodoxy Science Vs Religion Goethe Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Cuvier Erasmus Darwin Georges Cuvier Lamarck Benoit De Maillet Benoît De Maillet De Maillet Jean Baptiste Lamarck Treviranus

Book:Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century, The

Source: Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century, The