I have a sneaking suspicion that all this straight-faced piety about sexuality misses one of the Creator's most brilliant bits of humour. The body uses the same general equipment for both lovemaking and plumbing. Desire and drainage are hilariously close. I think that's a hint to take it lightly. ... It's a movement of the dance , not the be-all and end-all of the dancers. Omitting it doesn't stop the show. There's nothing wrong with mutual agreed abstinence if honestly tried. - Robert Farrar Capon, Bed and Board, p 89
No other major scientific discovery or breakthrough has made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist only Darwin's. This will prompt some people to wonder whether Darwin's distinctive twin doctrines that evolution occurs gradually by means of natural selection and that this process necessitates an everlasting struggle for existence are not in fact scientific statements at all but expressions of opinion, metaphysical opinion that. - Charles Darwin Victorian Mythmaker, A N Wilson p14
Both Josiah Wedgewood and Erasmus Darwin had from the first been are supporters of the French Revolution Government spies kept watch on Wedgewood fearful that he who sent his sons to Paris on a trading mission in 1791 might have been plotting the overthrow of monarchical government - Charles Darwin Victorian Mythmaker, A N Wilson Page 23
"Farewell all created comforts. Farewell sweet Bible, in which I delighted most, and which has been sweet to me since I came to prison." – Last words from Isabel Alison, executed on 26 January 1681
All hail, redeeming blood!
All hail, life-giving grace!
All hail, the gift of Christ our Lord,
Our strength and righteousness.
I am coming, Lord,
Coming now to Thee:
Wash me, cleanse me in the blood
That flowed on Calvary.
- Lewis Hartsough (1828-19
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