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On the Origin of Species was first published on 24 November 1859.

Darwin had started work on the book in 1837 (when Darwin was 28), and in his introduction to the book, wrote that he had “gained much by my delay in publishing from about 1839.”

The first edition of 1250 sold out immediately, and a second edition of 3000 copies was issued in January 1860, which also sold out. The first US edition was released in January 1860, and went through 4 printings that year alone. By 1878 it had been translated into 11 languages (some translators, especially the German edition, took significant liberties with Darwin’s text, including adding material regarding religion that expressed the ideas of the translator or foreign published and not Darwin.

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“It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy.”

~Rainbow Rowell

Art Kaoru Yamada

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"If you want me to believe that teaching about God in schools would improve morality, you'll first need to explain why it doesn't seem to work in church."

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Mood

(Why I drink too much 🥴)

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Word

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Ragnar Sandberg (Swedish, 1902-1972), Modellstudie [Model study]. Mixed media on panel, 24 x 33 cm.

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There’s no going back.  Plus, note that the sticker on the book cover constitutes a red nose.

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All sorts of vintage book imagery is here in my virtual stacks.

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Mood

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Cal Cotton Plant (1959) in Bakersfield, CA, USA, by Whitney Biggar. Photo by Julius Shulman.

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"Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered 'five,' Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg." -- Thomas Sowell

You can't gaslight reality by trying to redefine it.