היא השנה בה נערך הדיון המפורסם בו הושמע הלגלוג הזה בפומבי לראשונה. זה מה שהאקסלי ענה באותה הזדמנות:
"A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling, it would be a man of restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice."
142 שנים חלפו, והבריאתנים לא למדו כלום.
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