Mr darwin was the first to give a reasonable explanation of the origin of coral reefs.
"Geology"
James Geikie
George Eliot, contemplative, observant, instinctively conservative, her imagination dearly loving to do "a little Toryism on the sly," is as yet the sole outcome of the modern positive spirit in imaginative literature-the sole novelist who has incorporated in an artistic form some of the leading ideas of Comte, of Mazzini, and of darwin.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
Her grandfather had been a pillar of the Presbyterian ministry, and the idea of her lecturing on darwin or Herbert Spencer was deeply shocking to her mother and aunts.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton