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- From: skaamjm@uk.ac.ucl (M.Moore)
- Newsgroups: sci.bio
- Subject: Re: What did 'Soapy Sam' Wilberforce say?
- Message-ID: <skaamjm.33.728071493@uk.ac.ucl>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:04:53 GMT
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- (Del Cotter) writes:
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- >I have been reading accounts of Thomas Huxley's famous 1860 encounter with
- >Samuel Wilberforce, but none of them say *exactly* what it was Wilberforce
- >said about Huxley's descent from an ape. Anybody know?
-
- Wilberforce is quoted as asking if 'somebody' (Darwin, for instance), was
- descended from an ape on his mother's side, or his father's, Huxley's reply
- was that he would rather be descended from an ape than from one who misused
- his gifts as Wilberforce did.
-
- My recollection (not of the debate...) is that there were no verbatim
- accounts of the debate, (which took place in the Union debating society),
- but that it was written up, or reported, later.
-