Science was tearing through the ‘fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs’.
ADRIAN DESMOND
ADRIAN DESMOND
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Adrian Desmond9 quotes“Science was tearing through the ‘fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs’.”
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A man got up [after one of Huxley’s ‘sermons’] and said ‘they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before’.
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Adrian DesmondAdrian Desmond It demanded a new rationale for belief.
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