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Russell Wallace did a short apprenticeship in
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Darwin regarded these men as his soldiers
who would do battle in the social arena because
he himself did not like to be involved in such
activities. The idea of speaking or disputing in
public made him physically ill. Richard
Milner, a well-known evolutionist
of a later period who did much
research on the life of Darwin,
described these people as
"Darwin's band of rebels."
In time the number of
missionaries gradually increased,
and the spread of Darwin's religion
throughout the world became an
ideal, in support of which people
came forward from every segment
of society. Of these the first that
comes to mind is Thomas Huxley,
known as Darwin's "bulldog," his
son Julian Huxley, and Theodosius
Dobzhansky; in modern times,
From top to
Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay
bottom:
Gould. What is most noticeable Evolutionist
about these men is that despite the missionaries
William
irrationality (which they admit in
Smith, James
their confessions), they refuse to Hutton,
give up their allegiance to Robert
Chambers,
Darwinism. In every area of their
and Alfred
lives, in their writings and their Russell
conversations, they always Wallace.

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