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From: Information Outlook
Date: 20040701
Author:Kaufman, Peter B.

In his memoir/autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, historian and novelist Henry Adams wrote at length about the theory of evolution that was being propagated after the Civil War "convulsing society," as he put it by British naturalist Charles Darwin. But reflecting upon the qualities of the sitting president at the time, Ulysses S. Grant, who was in the White House when Darwin returned home on the Beagle and was getting his results out, Adams expressed his doubts about whether the theory of evolution truly could hold.

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