 | Hugh Crichton Miller - Preaching - 1924 - 264 pages
...lady faced for the first time by the theories of Darwin: "Descended from monkeys? My dear, I trust that it is not true; but if it is, let us pray that it may not become widely known." Mutatis mutandis, the same is being said today about analytical psychology... | |
 | M. Ruse - Philosophy - 1985 - 286 pages
...8.3 and 8.4 are reprinted from The Quarterly Review of Biology 51 (1976). "Descended from monkeys? My dear let us hope that it is not true! But if it is true, let us hope that it not become widely known.'" (The wife of the Bishop of Worcester upon hearing... | |
 | Joseph Fahey, Richard Armstrong - Law - 1992 - 500 pages
.... that requires our attention. " to have exclaimed, "My dear, descended from the apes! Let us hope it is not true, but if it is, let us pray that it will not become generally known." It would seem that the last forty years of anthropological research and discovery in the field and... | |
 | Science - 1980 - 570 pages
...lady who is alleged to have said, when Darwin s ideas of descent from the animals first burst forth, "Let us hope that it is not true, but if it is, let us pray it does not become generally known." Like orphans searching for our parents, we want to know where... | |
 | Charles C. Euchner - Law - 1994 - 236 pages
...sentimental ism is reminiscent of a Victorian prude's reaction to the theory of evolution: "Descended from apes! My dear, let us hope that it is not true, but...us pray that it will not become generally known." The people who run professional and college sports are aware of the public's desire to believe the... | |
 | Larry T. Reynolds, Leonard Lieberman - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 440 pages
...Worcester's wife is heard reacting to the grim news with: "Descended from the apes?! My dear, we will hope it is not true. But if it is, let us pray that it will not become generally known." Of course, it did become known and, crumbling Victorian values notwithstanding, Western civilization... | |
 | Gregory A. Kimble - Psychology - 1995 - 180 pages
...Philadelphia mainline matron is reported to have said, "Evolution? Descended from apes? My dear, we will hope that it is not true. But if it is let us pray that it may not become generally known." This critical evaluation found official expression in the form of... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - Philosophy - 1996 - 764 pages
...has been that of the British lady who responded thus to Darwin's theory of evolution: "Let us hope it is not true, but if it is, let us pray that it does not become generally known."27 %t whatever the virtues of keeping the subject of IQ out of the... | |
 | Roger Shattuck - Knowledge, Theory of, in literature - 1997 - 388 pages
...than they are from one another." When she heard the news, the matron displayed perfect cultural pitch: "Descended from the apes! My dear, let us hope that it is not true, but that if it is, let us pray that it will not become generally known" (Milner, 261: see the bibliography... | |
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Descended from the apes! My dear, we will hope it is not true. But if it is, let us pray that it will not become generally known. 
