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History as Literature, by Theodore Roosevelt (1912)
- zabzonk 5y agoFair amount of rubbish here. To pick just one: > Scientific writers of note had grasped the fact of evolution long before Darwin and Huxley; and the theories advanced by these men to explain evolution were not much more unsatisfactory, as full explanations, than the theory of natural selection itself. Well, no (or at least, if Teddy thought that he should have provided examples) - Origin of Species was ground-breaking. > But Lamarck and Cope are only to be found in the libraries of a few special students. I don't know about Cope, but Lamarck is very well known, and his ideas are still influential today, for instance in immunology. Also, my family used to live in Rue Lamarck, in Paris, where my Dad was one of the organisers of the RAF contingent for the Paris Air Show that year - if you get a street named after you in Paris, you are probably not entirely forgotten. There is a Darwin Street in London, but given its location, I don't see it as a great compliment, if it is even named after him.