AMERICAN ITEMS.
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DARWINfAN THEORY. NEW YORK, March 17. A telegram, rom Springfield, Kentucky, says: “This town is experiencing troubulous times, as the result ol the evolution theory in relation to religion. The friendships of o lifetime have been rent asunder; deposits have from one bank and placed in another; and boycotts have been declared against certain merchants. Heated discussions, approaching dangerously near fistic encounters, occur daily, because the Darwinian theory, or as it is popularly put, the man descended I rom monkey theory, is being taught- in the local High School. Kentucky has a law* which forbids the teaching of human evolution theory in these institutions which received State support. At Springfield some of the churches alleged that th suprinteiulent of the High School was disobeying this law, and the pi o- * Darwinians came to his rescue, with \ turbulent results. Prominent speakers are being brought- in by both sides, and the enmity is reaching a -surprising degree.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1924, Page 2
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161AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1924, Page 2
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