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Trixie
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Message 33 of 76 (111592)
05-30-2004 5:51 PM
Reply to: Message 32 by Syamsu
05-30-2004 12:40 PM


Simple question
Have you actually read "On the Origin of Species"? Your post certainly suggests you have, so I would be grateful if you could direct me to the specific page numbers where he makes statements on
what the highest state of morality is, talking about the "fall of man" as described by evolutionary theory, opinionating that people inferior should not marry, talking about colonization in terms of natural selection, etc.
Please could you supply information on the edition and date of publication of the version you are reading.
Thanks

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Trixie
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From: Edinburgh
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Message 35 of 76 (111597)
05-30-2004 6:04 PM
Reply to: Message 34 by Chiroptera
05-30-2004 5:56 PM


Re: Simple question
The reason I'm asking is that I've just ploughed through the whole damned thing and haven't come across anything which can be said to resemble what Syamsu describes. So, either my edition is edited to remove these references, or they aren't there in the first place and it's dodgy interpretation that's the culprit.
I'm not too keen on struggling through the on-line version to see if there are differences between it and mine. Imagine how I would feel at the end if I DIDN'T find any differences Also, I only managed to get through the whole tedious lot of it by hiding all my other books and having nothing else to read at bedtime - I'd need to print out the on-line version to do the same thing. I think I'd lose heart about a tenth of the way through!

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Trixie
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Message 37 of 76 (111601)
05-30-2004 6:19 PM
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05-30-2004 6:08 PM


Re: Simple question
Why are you talking to me in Swahili??

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Trixie
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Message 53 of 76 (112840)
06-04-2004 5:58 PM
Reply to: Message 50 by Chiroptera
06-02-2004 8:19 PM


Thank you
I suspected that the claims that Darwin was racist would be a load of tosh and you've just confirmed it. Why, oh why didn't Syamsu provide the evidence he felt backed up his claim? Was it because he knew that there was no evidence which would do this?

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