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WILL you allow me a word on “The Great Lesson” by the Duke of Argyll? It is especially what is said about Darwin's coral-island theory in the following lines, to which I wish to refer:—“All the acclamations with which it was received were as the shouts of an ignorant mob. It is well to know that the plébiscites of science may be as dangerous and as hollow as those of politics. The overthrow of Darwin's speculation is only beginning to be known.… Reluctantly, almost sulkily, and with a grudging silence as far as public discussion is concerned, the ugly possibility has been contemplated as too disagreeable to be much talked about.”
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CLARKE, S. “The Conspiracy of Silence”. Nature 37, 200 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037200a0
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