Membership Denied!
"What has closed the doors of the Academy to Mr. Darwin is that the science of those of his books which have made his chief title to fame-the 'Origin of Species,' and still more the 'Descent of Man,' is not science, but a mass of assertions and absolutely gratuitous hypotheses, often evidently fallacious.
This kind of publication and these theories are a bad example, which a body that respects itself cannot encourage."| | On why the Zoological Section of the French Institute denied Darwin's membership in 1872. "Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, D. Appleton and Co., London, 2:400, footnote, 1911" |
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